Virtual Library

Museums

World Museums

This page includes an on-line museums collection and other web servers pointing at museums in Romania.

Please contact Irina Oberländer-Târnoveanu if you have relevant on-line information about museums and collections in Romania.

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Romanian Museums

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).

Bucharest City

1. "Grigore Antipa" National Natural History Museum, Bucharest (in Romanian)
2. Romanian Literature Museum, Bucharest
3. National Art Museum of Romania, Bucharest.
   Romanian and universal art collections, paintings, sculpture, graphics, oriental art.
4. National Military Museum, Bucharest. (in Romanian)
5. Museum of Romanian Peasant, Bucharest , winner of European Museum of the Year 1996/
6. 'Dimitrie Gusti' National Village Museum, Bucharest (in Romanian)
   Open air museum of traditional architecture.
7. National History Museum of Romania, Bucharest (in Romanian)
8. Museum of National Bank of Romania, Bucharest (in Romanian)
9. Railways Stations
10. Steam Locomotives Museum
11. The Technical Museum "Dimitrie Leonida"
12. National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest
13. The Museum of Bucharest City
14. The Old Court Museum
15. "Victor Babeş" Museum
16. "Admiral Vasile Urseanu" Observatory of Bucharest
17. The Philatelic Museum
18. National Geological Museum - (in Romanian)
19. Minovici Museum of Ancient Western Art
20. Theodor Aman Museum
21. Romanian Air Force Museum
22. Fireman National Museum
23. "I.L.Caragiale" National Theatre Museum

Alba Iulia

1. National Union Museum

Arad

1. Arad County Museum (in Romanian)

1. Maramures County Museum - a new web site at 100 years since the foundation of the museum!
2. Maramures County Museum - Etnographic Department (in Romanian)
3. Mineralogic Museum Baia Mare

Bacău

1. "George Bacovia" Memorial House

Bârlad

1. "Vasile Pârvan" Museum

Bistriţa

1. "George Coşbuc" Memorial House

Braşov

1. The Ethnographical Museum of Braşov
2. Memorial Museum "Muresianus' House" (see also in Francais or Deutsch)

Brăila

The Museum of Brăila

Bran, Braşov county

1. Bran Castle Museum

Brebu, Prahova county

1. Princely Manor from Brebu, Prahova County (in Romanian)

Campina, Prahova county

    1.   "B. P. Hasdeu" Memorial Museum

1. National History Museum of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca
   The largest collections of archaeology, history and numismatics in Transylvania.
2. National Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca
   Romanian art collection hosted in a baroc palace.
3. Vivarium of "Babeş-Bolyai" University

1. National History and Archaeology Museum - Constantza (in Romanian)
2. Histria

1. Museum of Oltenia
2. Craiova Art Museum

Cucuteni, jud. Iaşi

1. The Archaeological Park of Cucuteni

Deva, jud. Hunedoara

1. The Deva Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilisation

Dâmboviţa

1. Complexul Monumental - Muzeal "Curtea Domnească"

Drobeta Turnu Severin

1. Museum of Iron Gates Region

Floreşti, jud. Giurgiu

1. Ethnographic and Folk Art Museum

Focşani , jud. Vrancea

1. The Museum of Vrancea

Galaţi

1. The Museum of Visual Arts

Golesti, Arges county

1. Golesti Museum Complex. Open Air Museum, Golesti, Arges county (in Romanian)

1. The Iron Museum, Hunedoara (in Romanian)

Ialomiţa

1. The County Museum Ialomiţa

2. Maia - Catargiu Foundation of Art and Religious Culture

Iassy

1. "Moldova" National Museum Complex in Iassy
   Collections of art, archaeology, history, ethnography, science and technology - four museums in one.
2. The "Ştefan Procopiu" Museum of Science and Technology in Iassy (in Romanian)
3. The "Poni - Cernătescu" Museum in Iassy (in Romanian)
4. Romanian Literature Museum, Iassy
   Illustrated pages about writers from Iassy, memorial houses in Iassy, Ipotesti and surroundings.

Ipoteşti, Botoşani county

1. The Ipotesti Memorial - "Mihai Eminescu" National Centre of Research

Miercurea Ciuc

1. Miercurea Ciuc Museum

Neamţ

1. The NeamţCounty Museum Complex(Complexul Muzeal Judeţean Neamţ)

Oradea

1. The " Ţării Crisurilor" Museum

Ploieşti

1. Clocks Museum, Ploiesti
2. Prahova Natural Sciences Museum, Ploiesti (in Romanian)

1. Valcea County Museum, Ramnicu Valcea
   Historic, art, etnographic and archaeological collections.
   • Valcea Art Museum "Casa Simian" (Simian Mansion)
   • Village Museum of Valcea County (also in French)
     See also Village Museum of Valcea County
   • "Anton Pann" Memorial House

1. History Museum, Roman (in Romanian)
   History and archaeology collections.

1. ASTRA National Museum Complex, Sibiu see also Previous Web site
   Open Air Museum with the best Romanian collection of wind and water mills, museum of Transylvanian civilization, "Franz Binder" world ethnography collection.
2. Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu
   One of the largest art, natural science and archaeological collections in Romania.

Sighetu Marmaţiei

1. The Memorial of the Victims of Communism

Sinaia

1. Peleş National Museum

Slobozia

1. Ialomita County Museum, Slobozia
   Collections of archaeology and ethnography.
   Agriculture Museum, Slobozia
   The most original and rich Romanian museum dedicated to agriculture.

Târgovişte

1. The Romanian Police Museum

Targu Mures

1. The Museum of History and Archaeology, Targu Mures, Mures County (in Romanian)

1. The Village Museum of Banat Region
2. The Banat Museum Timisoara (in Romanian)
   • Art
   • History
   • Archaeology
   • Ethnography
   • Natural Science
   • Ethnography
   • The Conservation and Restoration Department <>

Valea Mare Pravat, Argeş county

1. Mateiaş Mausoleum