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Romanian Museums

Alfabetical index on locality: A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, Ş, T, U, V

Museums and Collections in Romania - on-line national database (753 records and 800 images); searchable either by museum main profile or location (county, locality).
It is included in the largest Romanian Cultural Heritage Resource: the Web site of the Institute for Cultural Memory (CIMEC) in Bucharest. (also in English)

Virtual Museum of Traditional Architecture in the Romanian Open Air Museums - on-line national database
Over 1450 buildings in 17 open-air museums, searchable either by museum, ethnographic area, ethnical group or county. Updated regularly.

Museums are listed alphabetically in geographical order (starting with the Capital City of Bucharest).

1. Ethnographic Museum
   

1. History Museum
   Brief information about the museum inside a local portal.
2. Natural Sciences Museum
   Brief information about the museum ina local portal.

1. Alba Iulia Orthodox Bishopric Museum Collection
   
2. National Museum of the Union
   Basic information regarding the museum and its collections of archaeology and history of Central Transylvania, from prehistory and Roman Period to Union Hall and the National Assembly in Alba Iulia which decided the union of Transylvania with Romania on the 1st of December 1918.

1. Teleorman County Museum
   

1. Dealu Orthodox Monastery Museum Collection
   

1. "Romulus Cioflec" Memorial House
   

1. "Iosif Sârbuț" Theatre, Music and Cinema History Collection
   
2. Arad Museum Complex
   Basic information regarding the history of the museum, its permanent exhibitions of history, archaeology and arts, departments and cultural events.
3. Art Museum
   

1. Avrig Museum
   

1. "George Apostu" Contemporary Art Museum
   Cultural centre with a rich programme of contemporary art exhibitions and cultural events.
2. "George Bacovia" Memorial House
   Basic information on the house-museum of the Romanian poet George Bacovia in Bacău.
3. "Ion Borcea" Natural Sciences Museum Complex
   Information for visitors regarding the deparments of the museum: the remarkable new green house, vivarium, astronomic observatory, memorial house of the scientist Ion Borcea at Racova, events and exhibitions, the contents of the journal of the museum, educational, cultural and scientific services.
4. "Iulian Antonescu" Museum Complex
   Official site of the museum: its history and current structure, collections of archaeology, history and ethnography, virtual tour with images from the museum, information for visitors.
5. "Iulian Antonescu" Museum Complex. Art Museum
   
6. "Nicu Enea" Memorial House
   
7. "V. Anestin" Astronomical Observatory
   
8. ALFA Galleries
   
9. Vivarium
   

1. Memorial House of the Poet Ion Șiugariu
   

1. "Baia Mare Art Centre" Fine Art Museum
   
2. Ethnographic and Folk Art Museum
   
3. Florean Museum
   
4. Maramureș County Museum of History and Archaeology
   The official site of the museum with information for visitors, events, publications, images from exhibitions, including a permanent exhibitions on the history of the Romanian computer.
5. Museum of Mineralogy
   Remarkable collection of mine flowers.
6. Planetarium
   

1. "Gheorghe Petre" Archaeology and Religious Art Museum
   

1. Olt County Museum. Folk Pottery Department in Balş
   

1. "Vasile Pârvan" Museum
   The official site of the museum: history of the collections, archaeological sites, oustanding people from Barlad, events, publications, images, museum's friends page.

1. "Bishop Gavril de Bârsana" Museum of Icons and Rare Books
   

1. "Gheorghe Pop de Băsești" Memorial House
   

1. "Mihai Tican-Rumano" Fine Art Collection
   

1. History and Ethnography Museum
   

1. Ethnographic and Folk Art Museum
   

1. "George Muntean" House Museum
   

1. Village Museum
   

1. Botoșani County Museum
   

1. "D. P. Perpessicius" Memorial House
   
2. "Panait Istrati" Memorial House
   
3. Museum of Brăila
   The official site of the museum: cultural events, oustanding local people, archaeological researches, virtual exhibitions, publications of the Istros Publishing House.
4. Museum of Brăila. Department of Natural Sciences
   
5. Museum of Brăila. Ethnography and Folk Art Department
   
6. Museum of Brăila. Nicăpetre Cultural Centre
   

1. Bran Castle
   The official site of the famous castle - museum, often associated with the myth of Dracula. Mediaeval history and royal summer residence after 1918.

1. "Mureșianu's House" Museum
   
2. "Ștefan Baciu" Memorial House
   
3. Art Museum
   
4. County History Museum
   
5. Ethnographic Museum
   
6. Evangelical Parish House. Silverware Museum Collection
   

1. "Princely House" Museum
   

1. "Constantin Stere" Memorial House
   

1. "Admiral Vasile Urseanu" Bucharest City Observatory
   All about astronomy.
2. "Chief-Rabbi Dr. Moses Rosen" History Museum of the Jews in Romania
   
3. "Dimitrie Gusti" National Village Museum
   Open-air museum.
4. "Dr. Victor Babeș" Memorial Museum
   
5. "Eng. Dumitru Minovici" Western Old Art Museum
   
6. "George and Agatha Bacovia" Memorial House
   
7. "George Enescu" National Museum
   
8. "Grigore Antipa" Natural History National Museum
   
9. "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre Museum
   
10. "Ion Minulescu" Memorial House
    
11. "King Ferdinand I" National Military Museum
    
12. "Liviu Rebreanu and Fanny Rebreanu" Memorial House
    
13. "Prof. Dr. Nicolae Minovici" Folk Art Museum
    
14. "Prof. Eng. Dimitrie Leonida" National Technological Museum
    
15. "Theodor Aman" Museum
    
16. "Theodor Pallady" Museum
    
17. "Tudor Arghezi" Memorial House
    
18. "Vasile Grigore - Painter and Collector" Art Museum
    
19. Antiquities Collection of "Vasile Pârvan" Institute of Archaeology
    History of the collection, text and period images.
20. Art Collections Museum
    Great private art collections gathered in a unique museum.
21. Aviation Museum
    The only Romanian museum dedicated to the history of aviation.
22. Bucharest Municipality Museum
    
23. Cotroceni National Museum
    History of the palace and many images.
24. Museum of Folk Costumes in Romania
    
25. Museum of Polytechnical University
    
26. Museum of Sports in Romania
    History of Romanian sports.
27. Museum of the National Bank of Romania
    Numismatic collection.
28. National Geological Museum
    The official site of the museum: collections, programmes for the public.
29. National History Museum of Romania
    The official site of the museum: collections, exhibitions, research, pulbication, PhD theses.
30. National Museum of Art of Romania
    Collection of European and Romanian art. Friends of the museum page.
31. National Museum of Contemporary Art
    Current exhibitions and events, information for visitors.
32. National Museum of Firemen
    
33. National Museum of Maps and Rare Books
    
34. National Museum of the Romanian Literature
    The official site of the museum of Romanian literature: pages and imags of Romanian writers, exhibitions, sound recordings.
35. National Museum of the Romanian Peasant
    The official site of the museum of Romanian folk art and rural civilisation.
36. National Philatelic Museum
    History of stamps and post, news, exhibitions.
37. Romanian Railway Museum
    
38. The "K.H. Zambaccian" Museum
    

1. History Museum
   

1. Village Museum of the Vâlcea Area
   Open air museum of folk architecture.

1. "Cezar Petrescu" Memorial House
   

1. Buzău County Museum
   

1. Buziaș Spa Museum
   

1. Lower Danube Museum
   
2. Lower Danube Museum. Ethnography and Folk Art Department
   

1. "Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu" Museum
   
2. "Nicolae Grigorescu" Memorial Museum
   

1. Câmpulung City Museum
   
2. Câmpulung City Museum. Ethnographic and Folk Art Department
   

1. Wooden Art Museum
   

1. "Moș Ion Roată" Memorial House
   

1. Museum of Romanaţi
   

1. County Museum of Ethnography and Border Regiment
   

1. Cartianu House
   

1. Museum of Cenad
   

1. "Panait Cerna" Memorial House
   

1. Cernica Orthodox Monastery Museum Collection
   

1. Olt County Museum. Ethnography and Folk Art Department in Chilia
   

1. Ciceu Mihăești Museum
   

1. Țigănești Orthodox Monastery Museum Collection
   

1. "Textile Industry History" Museum Exhibition
   

1. Ethnographic Museum Exhibition
   

1. "Alexandru Borza" Botanic Garden
   
2. "Babeș-Bolyai" University Museum
   
3. "Romulus Vuia" Ethnographic Park
   
4. Art Museum
   Romanian art collection housed in a Baroque palace.
5. Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania
   
6. History of Pharmacy Collection
   
7. National History Museum of Transylvania
   The official site of the museum.
8. Palaeontological and Stratighraphical Museum of the "Babeș-Bolyai" University
   
9. The Mineralogical Museum of the "Babeș-Bolyai" University
   
10. Vivarium of the "Babeș-Bolyai" University
    
11. Zoological Museum of the "Babeș-Bolyai" University
    

1. "George Coșbuc" Memorial Museum
   

1. "Petöfi Sándor" Memorial Collection
   

1. "King Ferdinand I" National Military Museum. Constanţa Branch
   
2. Astronomic Observatory
   
3. Museum of the Romanian Navy
   
4. Museum of the Sea
   
5. National History and Archaeology Museum
   
6. Natural Sciences Museum Complex
   
7. Planetarium
   
8. The Aquarium of Constanța
   

1. Village Museum
   

1. "Costache Negri" Memorial House
   

1. "Alexandru Bălintescu" Fine Arts Collection
   

1. "I. C. Vissarion" Memorial House
   

1. Art Museum
   
2. Museum of Oltenia
   
3. Museum of Oltenia. History and Archaeology Department
   
4. Museum of Oltenia. Natural Sciences Department
   

1. "Molnár István" City Museum
   

1. Cucuteni Archaeological Site Museum
   

1. Curtea de Argeș City Museum
   

1. Folk Architecture Museum of Gorj
   

1. Dej City Museum
   

1. Dacian and Roman Civilisation Museum
   
2. Deva Fortress
   

1. "Constantin Romanescu" Zoological Museum
   

1. "Iron Gates" Region Museum
   Collections of archaeology, history, arts, natural sciences and ethnography.
2. Art Museum
   

1. Enisala Homestead Museum
   

1. "Ion Irimescu" Art Museum
   Modern sculpture museum.
2. "Mihai Băcescu" Museum of Waters
   
3. "Mihail Sadoveanu" Memorial House
   
4. Outstanding People's Gallery
   

1. "Ioan Luca" Ethnographic Museum
   

1. Museum of Vrancea
   

1. "Prince Cuza House" Museum
   
2. History Museum
   
3. House Museum
   
4. Natural Sciences Museum Complex
   Museum in a new building on board of the Danube with temporary exhibitions, planetarium, acvarium and botanic garden.
5. Visual Arts Museum
   Rich museum of modern Romanian art.
6. Zoological Garden
   

1. Galeș Ethnography Museum
   

1. Dervent Orthodox Monastery Museum Collection
   

1. Glassier and Cave of Scărișoara
   

1. "Tarisznyás Márton" Museum
   Rich museum of local cultural history.

1. Ghighiu Orthodox Monastery Museum Collection
   

1. "Antal Maria" Ethnographic Collection
   

1. "Vasile Conta" Memorial Museum
   

1. "Teohari Antonescu" County Museum
   
2. "Teohari Antonescu" County Museum. Ethnography and Folk Art Departament
   

1. Wine Growing and Tree Growing Museum
   Open air museum of traditional folk architecture and the manor of the Golești noble family.

1. Bukovina Folk Customs Museum
   

1. Vineyard and Wine Museum
   

1. "Ion Creangă" Memorial House
   

1. "Corvin Castle" Museum
   

1. "Ion Luca Caragiale" Memorial House
   

1. "Anastasie Fătu" Botanic Garden
   
2. "George Topârceanu" Memorial House
   
3. "Ion Creangă" Museum
   
4. "Mihai Codreanu" Museum
   
5. "Mihai Eminescu" Museum
   
6. "Mihail Kogălniceanu" Memorial Museum
   
7. "Mihail Sadoveanu" Museum
   
8. "Moldavia" National Museum Complex
   
9. "Nicolae Gane" Museum
   
10. "Otilia Cazimir" Museum
    
11. "Poni - Cernătescu" Memorial Museum
    
12. "St. Hierarch Dosoftei" the Metropolitan
    
13. "Ștefan Procopiu" Museum of Science and Technology
    
14. "The History of Romanian Theatre" Museum Collection
    
15. "Vasile Pogor" Memorial House
    
16. Art Museum
    
17. Ethnographic Museum of Moldavia
    
18. Galata Monastery Museum Collection
    
19. Golia Monastery Collection
    
20. History Museum of Moldavia
    
21. Museum of Romanian Literature
    Illustrated pages of the writers and poets of Jassy, of the memorial houses in Jassy, Ipotești and other locations around them.
22. Museum of the Union
    
23. Natural History Museum
    

1. "Dr. Vasile Lucaciu" Museum and Monumental Group
   

1. Ipotești Memorial and "Mihai Eminescu" National Studies Centre
   The birth place of the greatest Romanian poet.

1. "Ioan Slavici and Emil Monția" Memorial Museum
   

1. "Hortensia Papadat Bengescu" Memorial House
   

1. "Sever Bocu" Press Museum
   
2. "Ștefan Jäger" Memorial Exhibition
   

1. "Nikolaus Lenau" Memorial House
   

1. "Ștefan Crișan" Rare Books and Icons Collection
   
2. Lipova City Museum
   

1. Măldărești Museum Complex
   Traditional fortified house (kula).

1. "Nicolae Labiș" Memorial House
   

1. "Callatis" Archaeological Museum
   

1. Mărăști Mausoleum
   Memorial for those who died during the fights of the first world war.

1. Mediaș City Museum
   

1. Szekler Museum of Ciuc Region
   The official site of the museum, in Hungarian, with abstracts in Romanian, English and German; about Miko Castle, exhibitions, collections, events, and the works of local painter Nagy Imre.
2. The Upper Olt and Mureș Rivers Museum
   

1. Museum of Vineyard and Wine
   

1. "Vasile Alecsandri" Museum
   

1. Dragomirna Monastery Museum Collection
   

1. Martyrs' House of Moisei
   29 Romanian were killed here in October 14, 1944.

1. Village Museum
   

1. Moreni Museum
   

1. Muntenii de Sus Museum
   

1. "George Topârceanu" Memorial House
   

1. Oaș Land Museum
   Collections of history and ethnography of the Oaș Land, in northern Romania.

1. Palaeo-Christian Monument
   

1. Ethnographic Museum
   

1. Museum Collection of Nucet Monastery
   

1. Gumelnița Civilisation Museum
   

1. "Ady Endre" Memorial Museum
   
2. "Aurel Lazăr" Memorial House
   
3. "Iosif Vulcan" Memorial Museum
   Webpage in the official site of the Criș Land Museum.
4. Criș Land Museum
   Teh official site of the museum: Information on history, archaeology, ethnography, art and natural sciences collections, temporary exhibitions, programmes for the public.
5. Zoological Garden
   

1. Swabian Museum
   

1. Olt County Museum. Archaeology and History Department
   

1. "Calistrat Hogaș" Memorial Museum
   
2. "Lascăr Vorel" Art Gallery
   
3. Art Museum
   
4. Ethnographic Museum
   
5. Natural Sciences Museum
   
6. Neamț County Museum Complex
   The official site of the museum and its departments in Piatra Neamț and the county of Neamt.
7. Princely Court Exhibition
   

1. Ethnographic Museum
   

1. Argeș County Museum
   Official site of the museum: history of the museum and its collections of history, archaeology and natural sciences, exhibitions.
2. Planetarium
   

1. "Hagi Prodan" Urban House Museum
   
2. "Ion Ionescu-Quintus" Prahova County Art Museum
   Information on the departments and collections, Iosif Iser International Etching Biennial, arts residence in Brebu, and the memorial house of the painter Nicoale Grigorescu in Câmpina.
3. "Ion Luca Caragiale" Museum
   
4. "Nichita Stănescu" Memorial Museum
   
5. "Nicolae Simache" Clock Museum
   Beautiful collection of clocks and watches of all shapes and sizes, musical boxes and decorative clocks.
6. "Paul Constantinescu" Memorial Museum
   
7. Prahova County Museum of History and Archaeology
   History and archaeology of the Prahova area.
8. Prahova County Natural Sciences Museum
   

1. Polovragi Cave
   

1. Brancovan Palace Museum
   

1. Ethnography Museum
   

1. "Priest Vasile Heisu" Ethnografic Exhibition
   

1. "Anton Pann" Memorial House
   
2. "Simian House" Art Museum
   
3. Vâlcea County Museum
   The official site of the museum and of its departments.

1. Ethnographic Museum
   

1. Museum of Banat Mountain Area
   

1. Art Museum
   
2. History Museum
   Collections of local history and archaeology.
3. Natural Sciences Museum
   

1. "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Memorial Museum
   

1. Village Museum
   

1. "Metropolitan Antonie Plămădeală" Collection - Brâncoveanu Monastery
   Religious art.

1. Comparative Art Museum
   Art and ethnography collections, events, catalogue of artists; many images.

1. Village Museum
   

1. "Béla Bártok" Memorial Exhibition
   

1. Satu Mare County Museum
   

1. Village Museum
   

1. "Ioan Raica" City Museum
   

1. National Museum of the Eastern Carpathians
   
2. Szekler National Museum
   

1. "Priest Zosim Oancea" Glass Icons Parish Museum
   In Romanian, English, Italian

1. "ASTRA" Museum of Traditional Folk Civilisation
   
2. "ASTRA" Museum of Transylvanian Civilisation
   
3. "ASTRA" National Museum Complex
   Rich ethographic complex with several departments: take a virtual tour through the open air museum, learn about current events, festivals and publications of this vivid museum.
4. "Emil Sigerus" Museum of Saxon Ethnography and Folk Art
   
5. "Franz Binder" World Ethnography Museum
   
6. Brukenthal National Museum
   The oldest museum in Romania. Important collections of European art, mainly painting, as well as history, weapons, coins,rare books and manuscripts, archaeology, and natural sciences.
7. History Museum
   
8. History of Pharmacy Exhibition
   
9. Natural History Museum
   

1. "Ellie Wiesel" Memorial House - Museum of Jewish Culture in the Maramureș Region
   
2. Maramureș Museum. Open Air Department
   
3. Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance
   Museum and research centre dedicated to the victims of the communist regime in Romania. The museum is organised in the former prison where part of the political and cultural elite of the country was destroyed after 1948.

1. History Museum
   

1. "George Enescu" Memorial House
   
2. Peleș National Museum
   The formal royal summer residence in the mountains, the castle houses a rich art collection and period interiors.
3. Sinaia Orthodox Monastery Museum Collection
   

1. History Museum
   

1. Olt County Museum
   
2. Olt County Museum. Ethnography Department
   

1. Ialomița County Museum
   
2. National Museum of Agriculture
   

1. House - Museum
   

1. "Ciprian Porumbescu" Museum Complex
   

1. "Simion Florea Marian" Memorial House
   
2. Bukovina Museum Complex
   The main museum in Bukovina, the northern historic region of Romania.
3. Bukovina Museum Complex. Art Department
   
4. Bukovina Museum Complex. Ethnographic Department
   
5. Natural Sciences Museum
   
6. Planetarium
   
7. Princely Court of Suceava
   

1. Ethnographic Museum
   

1. "Iulia Hălăucescu" Art Museum
   

1. Târgșoru Vechi Archaeological Park
   

1. "Gheorghe Petrașcu" House and Workshop
   
2. "The Royal Court" Museum Complex
   The official site of the museum and of its departments.
3. "Vasile Blendea" Museum
   
4. Art Museum
   
5. History Museum
   
6. Museum of Dâmbovița Region the Writers
   
7. Museum of the Romanian Police
   
8. Romanian Printing and Rare Books Museum
   
9. Stelea Art Galleries
   

1. "Alexandru Ștefulescu" County Museum
   
2. "Ecaterina Teodoroiu" Memorial House
   
3. Art Museum
   

1. "Ion Vlasiu" Art Gallery
   
2. "Nagy Imre" Art Gallery
   
3. Bolyai Museum
   
4. Mureș County Museum. Art Department
   
5. Mureș County Museum. Ethnography and Folk Art Department
   
6. Mureș County Museum. Natural Sciences Department
   
7. Zoological Garden
   

1. "Veronica Micle" Memorial House
   
2. History and Ethnography Museum
   
3. Neamț Fortress
   

1. Guilds' Museum
   

1. "Nicolae Popa" Museum
   Flok masks and other folk objects in a private collection opened to the public.

1. "I.I. Mironescu" Memorial House
   

1. "Rosetti Tescanu - George Enescu" Memorial House
   Cultural centre and memorial museum of the noble family of Rosetti - Tescanu and of the Romanian composer George Enescu.

1. "Corneliu Miklosi" Museum of Public Transport
   
2. "Pădurea Verde" Zoological Garden
   
3. Art Museum
   Collections of European Art, local artists from Banat Region, painter Corneliu Baba collection.
4. Museum of Banat
   Museum of history, archaeology and natural sciences: museum collections, events, online versions of the scientific publications of the museum. (In Romanian)
5. Museum of Banat. Natural Sciences Department
   Brief presentation of the collections of rocks and minerals, butterflies, beetles, mollusks, birds, and dried plants, of the permanent exhibitions and publications of the museum.
6. Village Museum
   You can see the main houses and traditional farms, as well as workshops, mills, church, school, pub and other social buildings preserved in the open-air museum. Information on the history of the museum and an annual calendar of traditions.

1. "Tohani - Halting Place on the Wine Road" Permanent Exhibition
   

1. "Traian Vuia" Memorial Exhibition
   

1. "Costache Negruzzi" Memorial House
   

1. Art Museum
   
2. Danube Delta Eco-touristic Centre
   
3. History and Archaeology Museum
   
4. Institute for Eco-Museum Researches
   
5. Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art
   

1. History Museum
   

1. "Eusebiu Camilar" Memorial Collection
   House of the Romanian writer Eusebiu Camilar (1910 - 1965). (In Romanian).

1. "Bellu" Manor House Museum
   

1. "Mateiaș" Mausoleum
   Memorial for those who died during the fights of the first world war.

1. "Nicolae Iorga" Memorial Museum
   
2. "Teleajăn Upper Valley" Ethnographic Museum
   

1. Museum Collection of Vânători-Neamț
   

1. "Mihail Sadoveanu" Memorial House
   

1. Ethnographic Museum
   

1. Viforâta Orthodox Monastery Museum Collection
   

1. "Tudor Vladimirescu" Memorial House
   

1. "Gabriel Popescu" House and Workshop
   

1. Ethnographic Museum
   

1. "Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn" Memorial Exhibition