Hello everyone,
In case you are looking for some places to visit in Romania during the hot summer days, a museum might be your best choice! Here I made a list with some of the most famous museums in Romania:
- Village Museum in Bucharest: here you will learn a lot about the traditional way of living and Romania's countryside. You can read more about villages and the rural life in this blog article.
- Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History in Bucharest includes: Geological Collections, Paleontology Collections, Anatomy Collections, Ethnographic and Anthropological Collections, Vertebrate collections, Invertebrate collections and Entomological collections.
- Romanian Kitsch Museum in Bucharest: a fun museum where you will see how decorations used to be; it celebrates different people, ideas and events that have been important to Romanian history.
- Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance in Sighetu Marmatiei - is it housed in a former prison and it gives some insights into the communist regime in Romania.
- National Cotroceni Museum in Bucharest: the official residence of the President of Romania
- Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca: holds a collection of over 50,000 objects that illustrate the occupations, habits and life of the Transylvanian rural population.
- The ASTRA Museum of Popular Traditional Civilization in Sibiu: a traditional open-air folk museum and one of the biggest in all of Europe. In this museum, you will see how it was like to live in Romania before it was modernized.
Hope you enjoyed this list and stay tuned for the blog article that will include more museums and interesting exhibitions around Romania!
Roxana, OLS Community Manager - Romanian