Museums and memorial houses

Museums in Romania range from the large national collections of Bucharest, Iași, Cluj-Napoca and Sibiu to small village museums and the memorial houses of writers, musicians and politicians. Many of them are housed in castles, palaces and fortresses, so a single visit covers both the building and the collection. A category of their own are the open-air museums, with peasant homesteads moved here from every part of the country, and the memorial museums devoted to recent history.

Brukenthal Palace in Sibiu is one of the oldest museums in Romania, and the ASTRA Museum, in the same area, is the country's largest open-air museum. In Maramureș, the Sighet Memorial documents communist repression. In Bucharest, Cotroceni Palace and Primăverii Palace can be visited as museums, while the Palace of Culture in Iași brings four museums under one roof.