# Museums and memorial houses — tourist attractions in Romania [Romania](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/attractions) › [Categories](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/categories) > Museums, collections 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](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-brukenthal) in Sibiu is one of the oldest museums in Romania, and the [ASTRA Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-civilizatiei-populare-traditionale-astra), in the same area, is the country's largest open-air museum. In [Maramureș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/region/maramures), the [Sighet Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/memorialul-sighet) documents communist repression. In Bucharest, [Cotroceni Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-cotroceni) and [Primăverii Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-primaverii) can be visited as museums, while the [Palace of Culture in Iași](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-culturii-iasi) brings four museums under one roof. ## Tourist attractions 151 attractions - [Bran Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bran-castle) — Castles and palaces · Bran, BV · 120 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 20 A medieval fortress built by the people of Brașov on a rock in the Bran Pass, later Queen Marie's summer residence and known around the world as “Dracula's Castle”. - [Corvin Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/corvin-castle) — Castles and palaces · Hunedoara, HD · 55 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 20 John Hunyadi's Gothic residence, on a rock above the Zlaști river and reached by a long bridge on stone piers; inside, vaulted halls and towers from the 15th century. - [Făgăraș Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/fagaras-citadel) — Fortresses and fortifications · Făgăraș, BV · 30 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 20 A moated, bastioned fortress in the centre of Făgăraș, seat of the princes of Transylvania in the 17th century and now home to the Făgăraș Land Museum. - [Peleș Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/peles-castle) — Castles and palaces · Sinaia, PH · 100 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 20 King Carol I's summer residence, built between 1873 and 1914 at the foot of the Bucegi Mountains in Sinaia, with carved wooden interiors, armouries and stained glass. - [ASTRA Museum of Traditional Folk Civilisation](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/astra-museum-of-traditional-folk-civilisation) — Museums and memorial houses · Sibiu, SB · 50 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 20 Romania's largest open-air museum, in the Dumbrava forest outside Sibiu: over 300 houses, mills, workshops and wooden churches brought from across the country, along ~10 km of paths. - [Constanța Casino](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/constanta-casino) — Monuments and historic sites · Constanța, CT · 53 lei · Top 20 The Art Nouveau building on the Constanța seafront, opened in 1910, left to decay after 1990 and reopened in 2025 after restoration, with exhibitions on its history and on the Black Sea. - [Horezu Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/horezu-monastery) — Monasteries · Horezu, VL · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20 Constantin Brâncoveanu's largest foundation, officially Hurezi Monastery: the model ensemble of the Brâncovenesc style, built in 1690–1693 and a UNESCO site since 1993. - [Brukenthal Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/brukenthal-palace) — Castles and palaces · Sibiu, SB · 50 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100 The Baroque palace of Governor Samuel von Brukenthal on Sibiu's Great Square has housed Romania's oldest museum since 1817: a gallery of European painting with van Eyck, Titian and Bruegel. - [Mogoșoaia Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/mogosoaia-palace) — Castles and palaces · Mogoșoaia, IF · 15 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100 The Brâncovenesc palace built by Constantin Brâncoveanu in 1702, with its carved stone loggia, the old kitchen, a church from 1688 and a large lakeside park, 15 km from the centre of Bucharest. - [Cantacuzino Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cantacuzino-castle) — Castles and palaces · Bușteni, PH · 85 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100 The Neo-Romanian summer residence of the 'Nabob' Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, with a ballroom lined with coats of arms, a terrace facing the Bucegi Mountains and the Nevermore Academy exterior from Wednesday. - [Oradea Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/oradea-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Oradea, BH · Free · 2 – 2½ hours · Top 100 A pentagonal bastion fortress built by the princes of Transylvania in the 16th–17th centuries: five bastions, a princely palace housing the Oradea City Museum, and courtyards you can walk into freely. - [Cotroceni Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cotroceni-palace) — Castles and palaces · București · 50 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100 The royal residence of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie, today the seat of the Romanian Presidency and the National Cotroceni Museum: period salons, the king's library, the queen's apartments and Șerban Cantacuzino's rebuilt church. - [Sighet Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sighet-memorial) — Museums and memorial houses · Sighetu Marmației, MM · 25 lei · 2 – 2½ hours · Top 100 The former Sighet prison, where the political elite of interwar Romania died, turned by Ana Blandiana and Romulus Rusan into the first museum of communism in Eastern Europe; over 50 cells made into exhibition rooms. - [Palace of Culture in Iași](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palace-of-culture-in-iasi) — Castles and palaces · Iași, IS · 30 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100 The Neo-Gothic palace with a clock tower and carillon in the centre of Iași, built in 1906–1925 as a Palace of Justice; today it houses four national museums of art, history, ethnography and science. - [Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dimitrie-gusti-national-village-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 40 lei · 2 – 2½ hours · Top 100 An open-air ethnographic museum on the shore of Lake Herăstrău, in the middle of Bucharest: farmsteads, wooden churches, mills and workshops brought from all over the country and rebuilt here since 1936. - [Neamț Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/neamt-citadel) — Fortresses and fortifications · Târgu Neamț, NT · 24 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100 A medieval Moldavian fortress on a rocky spur above Târgu Neamț, built by the Mușatin princes and strengthened by Stephen the Great, which held out against Mehmed II's siege in 1476. - [Putna Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/putna-monastery) — Monasteries · Putna, SV · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100 Stephen the Great's foundation of 1466–1469, the site of his tomb, with the Treasury Tower of 1481 and a museum holding one of the richest collections of medieval embroidery. - [Royal Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/royal-palace) — Castles and palaces · București · 32 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100 The former residence of Romania's kings on Revolution Square, now the National Museum of Art of Romania: the Throne Hall, the Voivodes' Staircase and the country's largest collection of Romanian and European art. - [Sucevița Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sucevita-monastery) — Monasteries · Sucevița, SV · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100 The Movilă family's fortified monastery, built in the 1580s among the hills of Bukovina, with a church painted almost entirely inside and out and the famous "Ladder of Virtues"; a UNESCO site. - [Council Square (Piața Sfatului)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/council-square) — Monuments and historic sites · Brașov, BV · Free · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100 The main square of old Brașov, lined with merchants' houses and dominated by the Council House, the old town hall with its watchtower, now the County History Museum, with Tâmpa as a backdrop. - [Pelișor Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pelisor-castle) — Castles and palaces · Sinaia, PH · 30 lei · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100 Queen Marie's Art Nouveau castle, built between 1899 and 1902 next to Peleș, with the Gold Room, the Gold Bedroom and interiors designed by the queen herself; her heart is kept here. - [Suceava Princely Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/suceava-princely-fortress) — Fortresses and fortifications · Suceava, SV · 20 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100 The stone stronghold of the princes of Moldavia in Suceava, built by Peter Mușat and strengthened by Stephen the Great, with a bridge over the moat, walls over 10 m high and a display of medieval arms and treasure. - [Bánffy Castle in Bonțida](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/banffy-castle-in-bontida) — Castles and palaces · Bonțida, CJ · 15 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100 Transylvania's largest Baroque aristocratic residence, gutted in 1944 and being brought back to life by an award-winning training site; neo-Gothic façade, lapidarium and an exhibition on Miklós Bánffy. - [Histria Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/histria-citadel) — Fortresses and fortifications · Istria, CT · 32 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100 The ruins of the oldest city on Romanian soil, a Greek colony founded by Miletus in the 7th century BC on the shore of Lake Sinoe, with the site museum alongside. - [Primăverii Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/primaverii-palace) — Castles and palaces · București · 85 lei · 45 min · Top 100 The Bucharest home of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu from 1965 to 1989, also known as the Ceaușescu Mansion or Spring Palace, with its lavish interiors, mosaic pool and private cinema, seen on guided tours only. - [Tropaeum Traiani – Adamclisi](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/tropaeum-traiani-adamclisi) — Monuments and historic sites · Adamclisi, CT · 32 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · Top 100 The triumphal monument Trajan raised in 109 for his victory over the Dacians, reconstructed in 1977, with the original metopes in the village museum and the ruins of the Roman city nearby. - [Bánffy Palace in Cluj-Napoca](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/banffy-palace-in-cluj-napoca) — Castles and palaces · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 16 lei · Top 100 The finest Baroque palace in Transylvania, built between 1774 and 1785 on Cluj's Union Square, with classical statues along its attic; it houses the Art Museum, with five centuries of Romanian and Transylvanian painting. - [Cozia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cozia-monastery) — Monasteries · Călimănești, VL · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100 Mircea the Elder's foundation on the banks of the Olt, consecrated in 1388: the Holy Trinity church, with stone-and-brick façades, a Brâncovenesc porch and the prince's tomb in the narthex. - [Károlyi Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/karolyi-castle) — Castles and palaces · Carei, SM · 40 lei · 1 – 1½ hours Eclectic castle with towers and a moat, rebuilt in 1894–1896 by the Károlyi family in the middle of a three-century-old dendrological park; inside, period interiors, wax figures and African trophies. - [Castelul Lupilor (Wolves' Castle)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-lupilor) — Castles and palaces · Chimindia, HD · 25 lei · 1½ – 2 hours A storybook estate in Chimindia, near Deva: a castle with a guided tour and an observation tower, a traditional village in miniature, a playground and a little train for children. - [Baroque Palace of Oradea](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/baroque-palace-of-oradea) — Castles and palaces · Oradea, BH · 25 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The Roman Catholic bishops' residence, built in 1762–1777 by Franz Anton Hillebrandt, is Romania's largest Baroque palace; today it hosts church art exhibitions, and the garden is open daily. - [Horezu Ceramics – Olari Village and the Potters' Workshops](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/horezu-ceramics-olari-village-and-the-potters-workshops) — Villages and traditions · Horezu, VL · Free · 1 – 1½ hours Olari Street in Horezu, lined with family workshops where red clay is thrown on the wheel and painted with roosters, spirals and the tree of life; a craft inscribed by UNESCO as intangible heritage in 2012. - [Sinaia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sinaia-monastery) — Monasteries · Sinaia, PH · ½ – 1 hours The monastery built by the sword-bearer Mihail Cantacuzino in 1690–1695 that gave the town its name: the old church with Pârvu Mutu's frescoes, the great church rebuilt for Carol I and a museum holding the Bucharest Bible. - [Arsenal Park](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/arsenal-park) — Parks and gardens · Orăștie, HD · 40 lei · 3½ – 4 hours A military-themed park at Orăștie, on 88 hectares of forest: an open-air museum of military hardware, an adventure park, a 607 m zip line and a summer water park. - [Cuza Palace in Ruginoasa](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cuza-palace-in-ruginoasa) — Castles and palaces · Ruginoasa, IS · 40 lei · 45 min A Neo-Gothic palace of the Sturdza boyars, bought in 1862 by Alexandru Ioan Cuza and made the ruling family's residence; today a memorial museum with rooms recreated from Elena Cuza's inventory. - [Maramureș Village Museum “Mihai Dăncuș”](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/maramures-village-museum-mihai-dancus) — Museums and memorial houses · Sighetu Marmației, MM · 20 lei · 1 – 1½ hours A wooden Maramureș village on Dobăieș Hill: over 30 homesteads from across historical Maramureș, the wooden church from Oncești, and Ukrainian, Hungarian and Jewish houses. - [Mărășești Mausoleum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/marasesti-mausoleum) — Monuments and historic sites · Mărășești, VN · 20 lei · ½ – 1 hours The First World War heroes' mausoleum, built between 1923 and 1938 on the 1917 battlefield, with 5,073 soldiers in its crypts and a museum of the battles. - [Maria Theresia Bastion](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/maria-theresia-bastion) — Fortresses and fortifications · Timișoara, TM · 40 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The largest surviving piece of Timișoara's bastioned fortress, built by the Austrians in the 1730s and restored with EU funds, now home to the National Museum of Banat. - [Mikó Castle in Olteni](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/miko-castle-in-olteni) — Castles and palaces · Olteni, CV · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage A Classicist castle of 1827 with 19th-century wall paintings, restored with European funds and reopened in September 2026 as the Székely Equestrian Museum. - [Târgoviște Princely Court (Curtea Domnească din Târgoviște)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/targoviste-princely-court) — Monuments and historic sites · Târgoviște, DB · 30 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The residence of the rulers of Wallachia for almost three centuries, with the Chindia Tower, the ruins of the princely palace and the Great Princely Church, home to the largest votive painting of rulers in the country. - [Adorján Imre Manor](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/adorjan-imre-manor) — Castles and palaces · Armășeni, HR · 45 min A Székely noble house in Armășeni with a vaulted cellar and a wooden gate from 1828, a listed monument restored and reopened in 2021. - [Banat Village Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/banat-village-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Timișoara, TM · 20 lei · 1½ – 2 hours An open-air ethnographic museum on ~17 hectares at the edge of the Green Forest: houses and outbuildings from Banat villages, a wooden church, a school and an “Alley of Ethnicities”, all gathered into one village. - [Brâncoveanu Palace in Potlogi](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/brancoveanu-palace-in-potlogi) — Castles and palaces · Potlogi, DB · 30 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The princely court built by Constantin Brâncoveanu in 1698 for his eldest son, with a loggia-fronted palace, walled courtyards and restored gardens, ~50 km from Bucharest. - [Cucuteni Archaeological Site Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cucuteni-archaeological-site-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Cucuteni, IS · 20 lei · 45 min A stone rotunda built in 1982–1984 over a Geto-Dacian princely burial mound from the 4th century BC, on Gosan Hill, next to the site that gave the Cucuteni culture its name. - [Frederic Storck and Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/frederic-storck-and-cecilia-cutescu-storck-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 20 lei · 45 min The house and studio of the sculptor Frederic Storck and the painter Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck, built in 1911–1913: sculpture, paintings and drawings by the Storck family, in a half-timbered building with a garden of stone fragments. - [Golești Museum of Viticulture and Fruit Growing](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/golesti-museum-of-viticulture-and-fruit-growing) — Museums and memorial houses · Ștefănești, AG · 15 lei · 2 – 2½ hours The Golescu boyars' manor house, built in 1640 near Pitești, and an open-air museum with more than 30 farmsteads from the country's vineyards and orchards, on 10 hectares. - [Iulia Hasdeu Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/iulia-hasdeu-castle) — Castles and palaces · Câmpina, PH · 18 lei · ½ – 1 hours The temple-castle built by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu in memory of his daughter Iulia, to plans he claimed she gave him in spiritualist séances; today a memorial museum. - [Kálnoky Castle in Micloșoara](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/kalnoky-castle-in-miclosoara) — Castles and palaces · Micloșoara, CV · 30 lei · ½ – 1 hours A Renaissance hunting manor of the Counts Kálnoky, begun in 1648, with bastions and rare stucco work, restored and opened in 2017 as the Museum of Transylvanian Life, with guided tours. - [Museum of Art Collections](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/museum-of-art-collections) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 40 lei · 1 – 1½ hours A museum in the former Romanit Palace on Calea Victoriei, with over 30 collections donated by Bucharest residents: modern Romanian painting, Oriental carpets, French furniture and a lapidarium in the cellars. - [Pharmacy Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pharmacy-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 44 lei · ½ – 1 hours A department of the National Museum of Transylvanian History, in Hintz House on Union Square, in the oldest pharmacy in Cluj: the dispensary with 18th-century decoration, the laboratory and old medical equipment. - [Văratec Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/varatec-monastery) — Monasteries · Agapia, NT · 1 – 1½ hours The largest convent in Romania, home to more than 400 nuns, founded in 1785 in a clearing at the foot of the mountains, where the poet Veronica Micle is also buried. - [Apafi Castle in Dumbrăveni](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/apafi-castle-in-dumbraveni) — Castles and palaces · Dumbrăveni, SB · 30 min A 16th-century Renaissance castle in the centre of Dumbrăveni, home of Prince Mihai Apafi I; today partly ruined, it houses a collection on Transylvanian Armenians and is due to be restored. - [Bánffy Castle in Nușfalău](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/banffy-castle-in-nusfalau) — Castles and palaces · Nușfalău, SJ · 1 – 1½ hours A Baroque castle of the Bánffy family, reopened in September 2026 after a restoration costing over two million euros: exhibitions on ethnography, the family and the poet János Arany, plus a wine exhibition in the cellar. - [Brașov Art Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/brasov-art-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Brașov, BV · 12 lei · ½ – 1 hours The museum in the 1902 Neo-Baroque building on Bulevardul Eroilor shows over 100 works in its Romanian Art Gallery, from portraits of Brașov patricians to the avant-garde. - [Bucharest Municipality Museum – Suțu Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bucharest-municipality-museum-sutu-palace) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 20 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The 1833–1835 palace near University Square, one of Bucharest's oldest aristocratic residences, houses the permanent exhibition “Time of the City”, on the history of the capital. - [Bukovina Village Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bukovina-village-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Suceava, SV · 16 lei · 1 – 1½ hours An open-air ethnographic museum on the plateau next to the Suceava Princely Fortress: farmsteads, workshops and installations from Bukovina villages, a wooden church from 1783, an inn and a school, all gathered into one village. - [Casa Mureșenilor Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/casa-muresenilor-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Brașov, BV · 8 lei · 45 min A house-museum on Piața Sfatului dedicated to the Mureșianu family, who ran "Gazeta Transilvaniei": an archive of over 25,000 documents, furniture, paintings and evidence on the history of the anthem "Deșteaptă-te, române!". - [Craiova Art Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/craiova-art-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Craiova, DJ · 30 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The museum in the Jean Mihail Palace, built in 1898–1907 to plans by Paul Gottereau, holds six works by Brâncuși, including “The Kiss”, as well as Romanian and European art. - [Filipescu-Cesianu House – Museum of Ages](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/filipescu-cesianu-house-museum-of-ages) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 20 lei · ½ – 1 hours The aristocratic residence of 1892 on Calea Victoriei, with a mansard roof and eclectic decoration, houses the Museum of Ages, on home and family life in Bucharest over the last 300 years. - [Fort 13 Jilava](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/fort-13-jilava) — Museums and memorial houses · Jilava, IF · ½ – 1 hours A fort in Bucharest's defensive ring turned political prison: the 1940 massacre, the 1946 executions and thousands of prisoners of the communist regime; on the UNESCO Tentative List since 2024. - [George Enescu National Museum – Cantacuzino Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/george-enescu-national-museum-cantacuzino-palace) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 15 min The Beaux-Arts palace on Calea Victoriei, built in 1901–1903 for Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, is the seat of the George Enescu National Museum; the building is closed for restoration, but its façade can be seen from the street. - [Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/grigore-antipa-national-museum-of-natural-history) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 32 lei · 1½ – 2 hours The museum on Kiseleff Road holds the 1907 dioramas, the Deinotherium skeleton and over 2 million zoological, palaeontological and mineralogical pieces, in a building inaugurated in 1908. - [Hațeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/hateg-country-unesco-global-geopark) — National parks and reserves · Hațeg, HD · 7½ – 8 hours The land of dwarf dinosaurs around Hațeg, Romania's first geopark: small museums with reconstructions and fossils, themed trails through villages, palaeontological sites and traces of 70-million-year-old volcanoes. - [History Museum – Altemberger House (Casa Altemberger)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/history-museum-altemberger-house) — Museums and memorial houses · Sibiu, SB · 36 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The history department of the Brukenthal National Museum, in a civil Gothic complex of the 15th–16th centuries, Sibiu's former town hall: lapidary, arms and armour, treasury and guild objects. - [Iron Gates Region Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/iron-gates-region-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Drobeta-Turnu Severin, MH · 40 lei · 1½ – 2 hours The county museum of Drobeta-Turnu Severin, with a 1:50 model of Trajan's Bridge, an aquarium of Danube fish and sections on archaeology, natural sciences and ethnography. - [Museum of National History and Archaeology, Constanța](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/museum-of-national-history-and-archaeology-constanta) — Museums and memorial houses · Constanța, CT · 25 lei · ½ – 1 hours The museum that holds the Tomis Sculpture Hoard, with the Glykon serpent, in the former Town Hall on Piața Ovidiu, closed for restoration; next door you can visit the Roman Mosaic Edifice. - [Nakó Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/nako-castle) — Castles and palaces · Sânnicolau Mare, TM · ½ – 1 hours A Neoclassical castle begun in 1864, with a medieval-style tower and 99 rooms, in the town centre; it houses the House of Culture and the "Béla Bartók" Memorial Exhibition. - [National Museum of Romanian Aviation](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/national-museum-of-romanian-aviation) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 1½ – 2 hours The museum of the history of flight in Romania, in the hangars of the former Pipera airfield: from replicas of Vuia's and Vlaicu's aircraft to MiGs, helicopters and radars displayed in the open air. - [National Museum of Transylvanian History](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/national-museum-of-transylvanian-history) — Museums and memorial houses · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 33 lei · ½ – 1 hours Cluj's museum of history and archaeology, in the building on Piața Muzeului: the exhibition “Untold Treasures”, the Roman Lapidarium and the Medieval Lapidarium, from the museum's collections of over 450,000 items. - [Natural History Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/natural-history-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Sibiu, SB · 20 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The natural sciences department of the Brukenthal National Museum, in a building from 1895: dioramas with sound and light, a Bison priscus skeleton, mammoth bones and a mineral collection. - [Pitești Prison Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pitesti-prison-memorial) — Museums and memorial houses · Pitești, AG · 25 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The former Pitești prison, where in 1949–1951 students held as political prisoners were subjected to “re-education” through torture, now a private memorial museum; on the UNESCO Tentative List since 2024. - [Reșița Steam Locomotive Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/resita-steam-locomotive-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Reșița, CS · 40 min An open-air museum opened in 1972 in Triaj Park, Reșița: 16 steam locomotives, most of them built in the town's works, led by the “Resicza” of 1872. - [Rhédey Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rhedey-castle) — Castles and palaces · Sângeorgiu de Pădure, MS · ½ – 1 hours A Late Baroque castle in Sângeorgiu de Pădure, rebuilt in 1807–1809 by Count László Rhédey; today a museum with guided visits about Countess Claudia Rhédey. - [Roșia Montană Gold Mining Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rosia-montana-gold-mining-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Roșia Montană, AB · 30 lei · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage A mining museum where 157 steps lead down to 170 m of original Roman galleries of Alburnus Maior, part of the Roșia Montană UNESCO site, plus stamp mills and a Roman lapidarium. - [Sighișoara Clock Tower](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sighisoara-clock-tower) — Monuments and historic sites · Sighișoara, MS · 50 lei · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage The 64-metre main gate tower of Sighișoara Citadel, with a colourful tiled Baroque roof, a clock with wooden figures and the History Museum, climbed all the way to the top gallery. - [Sihăstria Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sihastria-monastery) — Monasteries · Vânători-Neamț, NT · 1 – 1½ hours A monastery of monks in the Neamț mountains, founded in 1655, home of the spiritual fathers Cleopa Ilie and Paisie Olaru, whose relics have been open for veneration since 2025. - [Tismana Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/tismana-monastery) — Monasteries · Tismana, GJ · 1 – 1½ hours The oldest monastery in Wallachia, founded by St Nicodemus in the 14th century on a rocky spur next to a waterfall; Romania's National Bank gold was hidden here from 1944 to 1947. - [Tulcea Aquarium (Danube Delta Eco-Tourism Museum Centre)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/tulcea-aquarium) — Zoos and aquariums · Tulcea, TL · 30 lei · ½ – 1 hours The Danube Delta Eco-Tourism Museum Centre, the public aquarium in central Tulcea, with fish from the Danube and the Black Sea, coral reef tanks and a tunnel among sturgeon, plus an exhibition on the Delta's wildlife. - [Weavers' Bastion](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/weavers-bastion) — Fortresses and fortifications · Brașov, BV · 10 lei · 45 min The best-preserved bastion of Brașov's city walls, built by the weavers' guild in the 15th and 16th centuries, with timber galleries on four levels and a model of the medieval town. - [Zambaccian Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/zambaccian-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 16 lei · ½ – 1 hours The house museum of the collector Krikor H. Zambaccian, near Piața Dorobanților: Romanian art from Grigorescu to Baba alongside Cézanne, Renoir, Matisse and Picasso, in a 1940s villa. - [“Priest Zosim Oancea” Glass Icon Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/priest-zosim-oancea-glass-icon-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Sibiel, SB · 15 lei · ½ – 1 hours A museum in the village of Sibiel, beside the Holy Trinity church, with about 600 glass icons from Nicula, Făgăraș, Șchei, the Sebeș Valley and Mărginimea Sibiului, gathered from 1969 by Father Zosim Oancea. - [Agapia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/agapia-monastery) — Monasteries · Agapia, NT · 1 – 1½ hours One of the largest convents in the country, built in 1641–1643 in the Agapia valley, with a church whose interior was painted by the young Nicolae Grigorescu in 1858–1861. - [Apulum – the Roman remains of Alba Iulia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/apulum-the-roman-remains-of-alba-iulia) — Monuments and historic sites · Alba Iulia, AB · 15 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage The fortress of the 13th Legion Gemina beneath the citadel of Alba Iulia: the partly rebuilt south gate, the legion's headquarters preserved in the Principia Museum and a stretch of Roman road. - [Bârsana Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/barsana-monastery) — Monasteries · Bârsana, MM · ½ – 1 hours A convent in the Iza Valley, built from 1993 onwards of oak and river stone in the style of the Maramureș wooden churches: a precinct with a ~57 m church, bell tower, abbess's house and gardens. - [Brașov Ethnographic Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/brasov-ethnographic-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Brașov, BV · 12 lei · ½ – 1 hours Weaving, folk costume and the peasant interior of south-eastern Transylvania, in a permanent exhibition of tools, textiles and costumes from the Burzenland, Rupea, the Olt Land and the Bran area. - [Cernica Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cernica-monastery) — Monasteries · Cernica, IF · 1 – 1½ hours A monastery for monks built on two islands in Lake Cernica, on the edge of Bucharest: the lavra of St Calinic, with two large churches, a museum and the graves of figures from Romanian culture. - [Dragomirna Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dragomirna-monastery) — Monasteries · Mitocu Dragomirnei, SV · 1 – 1¼ hours The foundation of Metropolitan Anastasie Crimca (1602–1609), 12 km from Suceava: an unusually tall and narrow stone church enclosed by fortress walls, with a museum of old manuscripts and embroideries. - [First Romanian School](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/first-romanian-school) — Museums and memorial houses · Brașov, BV · 20 lei · ½ – 1 hours The old school in the courtyard of St Nicholas' Church in Șcheii Brașovului, now a museum: a classroom with wooden benches, a replica of Coresi's printing press and Romanian books five centuries old. - [Foișorul de Foc (Fire Watchtower)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/foisorul-de-foc) — Monuments and historic sites · București · 10 lei · 40 min The 42 m round tower built in 1890–1892 as a fire-watch lookout, today the National Firefighters' Museum, telling the story of firefighting in Romania. - [George Enescu Memorial House in Liveni](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/george-enescu-memorial-house-in-liveni) — Museums and memorial houses · Liveni, BT · 10 lei · 45 min The house in the village of Liveni, rebuilt on the foundations of the one where George Enescu was born in 1881, holds an exhibition on the composer's childhood: the pianino, rugs, photographs and early scores. - [Ion Creangă's Bojdeuca (Ion Creangă Memorial House)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ion-creanga-s-bojdeuca) — Museums and memorial houses · Iași, IS · 16 lei · 45 min The two-room cottage in Țicău where Ion Creangă lived from 1872 until his death and wrote “Memories of My Boyhood”. Opened as a museum in 1918, it is Romania's first literary memorial museum. - [Metropolitan Cathedral of Iași](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/metropolitan-cathedral-of-iasi) — Churches · Iași, IS · Free · 45 min The cathedral of the Metropolis of Moldavia, consecrated in 1887 in the centre of Iași and home to the relics of Saint Parascheva, which draw hundreds of thousands of pilgrims every October. - [Mikes–Szentkereszty Manor in Zagon](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/mikes-szentkereszty-manor-in-zagon) — Castles and palaces · Zagon, CV · 45 min A 17th-century manor given its present look in 1903, set in a park and home to the Mikes Kelemen museum: four memorial rooms for notable people born in Zagon. - [Mikó Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/miko-castle) — Fortresses and fortifications · Miercurea Ciuc, HR · 25 lei · 1 – 1½ hours A 17th-century Renaissance castle in the centre of Miercurea Ciuc, rebuilt by the Habsburgs as a fortification and now home to the Szekler Museum of Ciuc. - [Museum of Popular Architecture of Gorj](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/museum-of-popular-architecture-of-gorj) — Museums and memorial houses · Curtișoara, GJ · 1 – 1½ hours Open-air museum at Curtișoara, near Bumbești-Jiu: over 30 wooden peasant houses from all over Gorj, the Tătărescu ensemble, churches and folk installations, next to the Cornoiu Kula. - [National Museum of Romanian History](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/national-museum-of-romanian-history) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 32 lei · 1½ – 2 hours The museum in the Post Office Palace on Calea Victoriei shows the Historical Treasury, with the royal crowns and Getic gold, the Lapidarium and a full-size copy of Trajan's Column. - [National Museum of the Romanian Navy](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/national-museum-of-the-romanian-navy) — Museums and memorial houses · Constanța, CT · 1 – 1½ hours The museum of Romanian naval history, in the former Naval School building in Constanța: a 15th-century dugout boat, ship models and submarine parts. Closed for structural consolidation. - [National Museum of the Romanian Peasant](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/national-museum-of-the-romanian-peasant) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 20 lei · 1½ – 2 hours The museum in the Neo-Romanian building on Kiseleff Road, named European Museum of the Year in 1996, keeps over 100,000 objects of peasant art and civilisation. - [Neamț Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/neamt-monastery) — Monasteries · Vânători-Neamț, NT · 1 – 1½ hours The oldest and largest monastic settlement in Moldavia, recorded since 1407, with the Church of the Ascension built by Stephen the Great and consecrated in 1497. - [Nicula Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/nicula-monastery) — Monasteries · Nicula, CJ · ½ – 1 hours The hilltop monastery near Gherla that keeps the icon of the Virgin painted in 1681, which wept in 1699; home to the largest pilgrimage in Transylvania, on the Feast of the Dormition. - [Octavian Goga Memorial Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/octavian-goga-memorial-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Ciucea, CJ · 1 – 1½ hours The ensemble at Ciucea, the former manor of the poet Octavian Goga, includes the castle, the White House, the Ady Endre House and the poet's mausoleum; the museum is closed for rehabilitation. - [Palace of Culture in Ploiești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palace-of-culture-in-ploiesti) — Museums and memorial houses · Ploiești, PH · 20 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The former Palace of Justice in the centre of Ploiești, inaugurated in 1933, a Neoclassical building with a columned portico; today it houses the Museum of Man, the Aquarium and the “Nicolae Iorga” County Library. - [Palace of Culture in Târgu Mureș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palace-of-culture-in-targu-mures) — Castles and palaces · Târgu Mureș, MS · 30 lei · 1 – 1½ hours A masterpiece of Transylvanian Secession architecture, completed in 1913, with a gold-ground mosaic façade, the Hall of Mirrors and its 12 stained-glass windows, a concert hall with an organ and the Mureș County Museum's art galleries. - [Râmnicu Sărat Prison Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ramnicu-sarat-prison-memorial) — Museums and memorial houses · Râmnicu Sărat, BZ · 20 min The former communist prison known as the 'prison of silence', where Ion Mihalache, Corneliu Coposu and other political prisoners were held alone in their cells; on UNESCO's Tentative List, currently closed to visitors. - [Roșia Montană](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rosia-montana) — Monuments and historic sites · Roșia Montană, AB · 30 lei · 2½ – 3 hours · UNESCO World Heritage A mining village in the Apuseni Mountains and a UNESCO site since 2021: the Roman galleries of Alburnus Maior in the Mining Museum, the old centre with stone houses, the mining ponds and Piatra Despicată. - [Steam Locomotives Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/steam-locomotives-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Sibiu, SB · 45 min An open-air museum inside the CFR depot in Sibiu, opened in 1994: dozens of steam locomotives from 1885 to the 1950s, mainline and narrow-gauge, plus snow ploughs and cranes. - [Székely National Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/szekely-national-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Sfântu Gheorghe, CV · 25 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The oldest museum in Székely Land, in a building designed by Kós Károly in 1911–1912: history, ethnography, natural sciences and a garden with Székely gates. - [Szentkereszty-Bethlen Manor](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/szentkereszty-bethlen-manor) — Castles and palaces · Câmpia Turzii, CJ · 45 min A 19th-century manor in Câmpia Turzii, restored with PNRR funds and opened to the public in 2026 as a cultural tourism centre, with exhibitions and the Metallurgy House in the basement. - [Țării Crișurilor Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/tarii-crisurilor-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Oradea, BH · 15 lei · 1½ – 2 hours Bihor's county museum, housed since its move in the former Royal Cadet School of 1898: archaeology, history, art, ethnography, natural sciences and a vivarium under one roof. - [Turda History Museum (Princely Palace)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/turda-history-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Turda, CJ · 16 lei · ½ – 1 hours Archaeology and local history museum in a 15th–16th-century building in Turda's old centre, known as the Princely Palace: finds from the Roman fort of Potaissa, prehistory and medieval Turda. - [Batthyaneum Library](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/batthyaneum-library) — Museums and memorial houses · Alba Iulia, AB · 45 min The library in the Alba Carolina Fortress, housed in a former Baroque Trinitarian church: over 50,000 books, nearly 600 incunabula, 1,230 manuscripts and a fragment of the Codex Aureus. - [Brad Gold Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/brad-gold-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Brad, HD · 35 lei · ½ – 1 hours A collection of native gold from the Apuseni Mountains, with unworked gold leaves, wires and crystals, some shaped like animals, alongside minerals from around the world. - [Brâncoveni Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/brancoveni-monastery) — Monasteries · Brâncoveni, OT · ½ – 1 hours A convent in Olt, in the village that Matei Basarab and Constantin Brâncoveanu came from: defensive wall and bell tower of 1634–1640, a Brâncovenesc great church of 1699, and a museum with a lapidary. - [Cartianu Kula](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cartianu-kula) — Fortresses and fortifications · Turcinești, GJ · 45 min Fortified boyar house in Cartiu, near Târgu Jiu, built around 1760 on the core of a kula and wrapped in timber porches; it now houses a museum of Gorj folk costume. - [Casa Băniei](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/casa-baniei) — Museums and memorial houses · Craiova, DJ · 12 lei · 45 min The oldest civil building in Craiova, rebuilt by Constantin Brâncoveanu in 1699, is home to the Ethnography Section of the Oltenia Museum. - [Constantin Brâncuși Memorial House in Hobița](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/constantin-brancusi-memorial-house-in-hobita) — Museums and memorial houses · Peștișani, GJ · 45 min The wooden homestead in the village where Brâncuși was born in 1876: a house with a porch of twist-carved posts, a carved gate, outbuildings and peasant furniture, a museum since 1971. - [Cucuteni Museum of Eneolithic Art](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cucuteni-museum-of-eneolithic-art) — Museums and memorial houses · Piatra Neamț, NT · 16 lei · ½ – 1 hours A museum devoted entirely to the art of the Cucuteni culture, with painted pots and clay figurines 5,500–7,000 years old, in a Neo-Romanian building in the historic centre of Piatra Neamț. - [Cula Duca](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cula-duca) — Fortresses and fortifications · Măldărești, VL · 45 min An Oltenian fortified tower-house from 1812–1827, with a massive ground floor and a decorated veranda, built by the Măldărescu family and bought in 1910 by I.G. Duca; now part of the Măldărești Museum Complex near Horezu. - [Cuza Vodă House in Galați](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cuza-voda-house-in-galati) — Museums and memorial houses · Galați, GL · 4 lei · 45 min The house of Alexandru Ioan Cuza's parents, now the first house museum founded in Galați (1939), reopened in 2024 after restoration, with an exhibition on the ruler of the Union and on Galați between 1850 and 1930. - [Darvas-La Roche House](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/darvas-la-roche-house) — Museums and memorial houses · Oradea, BH · 20 lei · ½ – 1 hours The Secession villa of the industrialist Imre Darvas, designed by the Vágó brothers in 1909–1912, now houses Romania's first Art Nouveau museum, with period interiors and a garden. - [Dimitrie Leonida National Technical Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dimitrie-leonida-national-technical-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 25 lei · 1½ – 2 hours The technical museum in Carol I Park, founded in 1909 by Dimitrie Leonida, keeps over 40,000 objects, from mills and steam engines to Aurel Perșu's aerodynamic car. - [Ecaterina Teodoroiu Memorial House](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ecaterina-teodoroiu-memorial-house) — Museums and memorial houses · Târgu Jiu, GJ · 30 min The family house in Vădeni, now a district of Târgu Jiu, where Ecaterina Teodoroiu, the “heroine of the Jiu”, was born. A memorial house since 1938, with personal belongings, documents and photographs. - [Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ethnographic-museum-of-transylvania) — Museums and memorial houses · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 1 – 1½ hours The permanent folk culture exhibition in the Reduta Palace, the building in central Cluj where the Memorandum Trial was held: tools, costumes, ceramics and textiles from Transylvanian villages. - [Greceanu Kula](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/greceanu-kula) — Fortresses and fortifications · Măldărești, VL · 30 min The oldest kula of the Măldărești museum complex, a boyar tower from the 16th century completed in the 18th, with arcaded porches and an upper floor laid out as an Oltenian minor boyar's court. - [Ion Creangă Memorial House in Humulești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ion-creanga-memorial-house-in-humulesti) — Museums and memorial houses · Târgu Neamț, NT · 20 lei · 45 min The peasant house of logs and clay, with a shingle roof, where Ion Creangă grew up, the hero of “Memories of My Boyhood”. A museum since 1951, restored and reopened in 2024. - [Ipotești Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ipotesti-memorial) — Museums and memorial houses · Ipotești, BT · 15 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The Eminovici family house in Ipotești, rebuilt on the foundations of the one from Mihai Eminescu's childhood, with the family's wooden church, his parents' graves and a peasant house holding an ethnographic collection. - [Jidava Roman Fort (Jidova)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/jidava-roman-fort) — Monuments and historic sites · Câmpulung, AG · 20 lei · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage The Jidova or Jidava fort, at the entrance to Câmpulung, the only stone fort on the Limes Transalutanus, with walls, rebuilt towers, a hypocaust and a site museum; part of the UNESCO site of the Roman frontier in Dacia. - [King Ferdinand I National Military Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/king-ferdinand-i-national-military-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 10 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The military history museum near Gara de Nord follows, in its general military history pavilion, the story of weapons and the army from prehistory to the contemporary era. - [Magna Curia (Bethlen Castle)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/magna-curia) — Castles and palaces · Deva, HD · 30 lei · 1 – 1½ hours A Baroque palace at the foot of Citadel Hill in Deva, also known as Bethlen Castle, now home to the Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilisation, with a lapidarium in its courtyard. - [Mateiaș Mausoleum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/mateias-mausoleum) — Monuments and historic sites · Valea Mare-Pravăț, AG · 11 lei · 45 min The First World War heroes' mausoleum on Mateiaș Hill, built between 1928 and 1935 beside the DN73 on the site of the autumn 1916 fighting, with an ossuary, a bas-relief and two museum rooms. - [Memorial of the December 1989 Revolution](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/memorial-of-the-december-1989-revolution) — Museums and memorial houses · Timișoara, TM · 20 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The museum of the Memorial of the Revolution Association, in a former military building in Timișoara: clothes and flags from the days of December 1989, a chapel of the hero-martyrs and the only section of the Berlin Wall in Romania. - [National Museum of Art Timișoara](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/national-museum-of-art-timisoara) — Museums and memorial houses · Timișoara, TM · 1 – 1½ hours The museum in the Baroque Palace on Union Square holds old European painting, Banat and Romanian art and the Corneliu Baba collection, in a building begun in 1754. - [National Museum of Romanian Literature](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/national-museum-of-romanian-literature) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 30 lei · 1 – 1½ hours The permanent exhibition on Romanian literature, in an early 20th-century house in the Amzei area: manuscripts, books and writers' personal belongings, plus interactive installations, over four levels. - [National Museum of the Union and the Union Hall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/national-museum-of-the-union-and-the-union-hall) — Museums and memorial houses · Alba Iulia, AB · 25 lei · 1½ – 2 hours The museum in the Babylon building and the Union Hall, where the union of Transylvania with Romania was voted on 1 December 1918, in the heart of the Alba Carolina Fortress. - [Nicolae Simache Clock Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/nicolae-simache-clock-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Ploiești, PH · 50 lei · ½ – 1 hours A museum of timekeeping in a late 19th-century house in Ploiești: astronomical clocks from the 16th century, pocket watches, mantel clocks and musical mechanisms that still work today. - [Old Lighthouse of Sulina](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/old-lighthouse-of-sulina) — Museums and memorial houses · Sulina, TL · 20 lei · 45 min The white tower of the European Commission of the Danube in the middle of Sulina, now a museum about the town called “Europolis”, the writer Jean Bart and the conductor George Georgescu. - [Panait Istrati Memorial House](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/panait-istrati-memorial-house) — Museums and memorial houses · Brăila, BR · 30 min A red-brick house-museum in Brăila's Public Garden, with manuscripts, signed books and personal belongings of the writer Panait Istrati. It is not his birthplace but a former gardener's house. - [Pharmacy History Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pharmacy-history-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Sibiu, SB · 16 lei · ½ – 1 hours A department of the Brukenthal National Museum, in an arcaded house on the Small Square, the former "At the Black Bear" pharmacy: the dispensary, the laboratory and a homeopathy collection of almost 3,000 pieces. - [Rohia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rohia-monastery) — Monasteries · Rohia, MM · 1 – 1½ hours The Monastery of St Anne in the Lăpuș Land, hidden in a beech and oak forest, where the monk and writer Nicolae Steinhardt lived and is buried, with a library of over 40,000 volumes. - [Romulus Vuia National Ethnographic Park](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/romulus-vuia-national-ethnographic-park) — Museums and memorial houses · Cluj-Napoca, CJ · 10 lei · 1½ – 2 hours Romania's first open-air museum, on Hoia hill: farmsteads, workshops, peasant installations and three wooden churches gathered over ~16 hectares into a scattered village. - [Secu Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/secu-monastery) — Monasteries · Vânători-Neamț, NT · ½ – 1 hours A fortress-like monastery in the Neamț mountains, built in 1602 by the high steward Nestor Ureche, with walls up to 3 m thick, a church with its original inscription and a treasury of old church objects. - [Târgu Mureș Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/targu-mures-citadel) — Fortresses and fortifications · Târgu Mureș, MS · Free · 1 – 1½ hours A 17th-century fortified enclosure with seven bastions built by the town's guilds and the Franciscans' Gothic church in the courtyard, now a park open to all, with a museum and events. - [Teleki Castle in Gornești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/teleki-castle-in-gornesti) — Castles and palaces · Gornești, MS · 40 lei · 1 – 1½ hours A U-shaped Baroque residence with 52 rooms and 365 windows, built between 1772 and 1803; restored with Romania's recovery funds and reopened in July 2026 as a museum, with guided tours and a historic park. - [Teleki-Bolyai Library (Teleki Téka)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/teleki-bolyai-library) — Museums and memorial houses · Târgu Mureș, MS · 45 min A town palace in Târgu Mureș housing the first public library in Transylvania, founded by Count Sámuel Teleki: a great hall with original cabinets, old books in display cases and the Bolyai Museum. - [Theodor Pallady Museum (Melik House)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/theodor-pallady-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 16 lei · ½ – 1 hours Melik House, an 18th-century merchant's house in the Armenian Quarter, holds the Răut collection: canvases and over 800 drawings and engravings by Theodor Pallady, alongside European art and decorative objects. - [Tudor Vladimirescu Memorial House in Vladimir](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/tudor-vladimirescu-memorial-house-in-vladimir) — Museums and memorial houses · Vladimir, GJ · 30 min The wooden house in the village of Vladimir, birthplace of Tudor Vladimirescu, leader of the 1821 Revolution. Rebuilt in 1932 from an original photograph, now a museum with two furnished rooms. - [Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ulpia-traiana-sarmizegetusa) — Monuments and historic sites · Sarmizegetusa, HD · 30 lei · 1½ – 2 hours · UNESCO World Heritage The capital of Roman Dacia in the Hațeg Country: the restored amphitheatre and the ruins of the forum, walls and temples of the city founded by Trajan, plus the site's archaeological museum. - [Vâlcea Village Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/valcea-village-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Bujoreni, VL · 1 – 1½ hours An open-air village museum on the road out of Râmnicu Vâlcea towards Sibiu: nearly 80 peasant houses, workshops and installations from across the county, gathered on 8 hectares around the Bujoreanu Kula. - [Vasile Pârvan Museum, Bârlad](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vasile-parvan-museum-barlad) — Museums and memorial houses · Bârlad, VS · 16 lei · 1 – 1½ hours Vaslui County's museum, in a neoclassical palace that was once a prefecture: archaeology, history, art, local figures, plus an astronomical observatory and planetarium. - [Vovidenia Skete and Mihail Sadoveanu Memorial House](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vovidenia-skete-and-mihail-sadoveanu-memorial-house) — Monasteries · Vânători-Neamț, NT · ½ – 1 hours A monks' skete hidden among fir trees near Neamț Monastery, with a church of 1849–1857 painted on the outside too and the house of Metropolitan Visarion Puiu, where Mihail Sadoveanu lived, now a memorial museum. - [Wood Art Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/wood-art-museum) — Museums and memorial houses · Câmpulung Moldovenesc, SV · 20 lei · 1 – 1¼ hours An ethnographic museum devoted to wood, in the former prefecture of Câmpulung County: over 15,000 tools, pieces of furniture, dowry chests and household objects from Bukovina, plus an old timber house in the garden. --- Full page: https://peplaiuri.ro/en/museums-and-memorial-houses Other languages: Română: https://peplaiuri.ro/muzee-si-case-memoriale.md · Deutsch: https://peplaiuri.ro/de/museen-und-gedenkhaeuser.md · Italiano: https://peplaiuri.ro/it/musei-e-case-museo.md · Français: https://peplaiuri.ro/fr/musees-et-maisons-musees.md · Español: https://peplaiuri.ro/es/museos-y-casas-museo.md · Magyar: https://peplaiuri.ro/hu/muzeumok-es-emlekhazak.md Source: Pe Plaiuri (https://peplaiuri.ro/en) — Guide to tourist attractions in Romania