# 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 52 attractions - [Bran Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-bran) — 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/castelul-corvinilor) — 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. - [Peleș Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-peles) — 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/muzeul-civilizatiei-populare-traditionale-astra) — 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. - [Făgăraș Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-fagarasului) — 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. - [Constanța Casino](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cazinoul-din-constanta) — 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. - [Brukenthal Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-brukenthal) — 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. - [Cantacuzino Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-cantacuzino) — 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. - [Sighet Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/memorialul-sighet) — 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. - [Cotroceni Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-cotroceni) — 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. - [Károlyi Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-karolyi-carei) — Castles and palaces · Carei, SM · 40 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100 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. - [Oradea Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-oradea) — 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. - [Bánffy Castle in Bonțida](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-banffy-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. - [Mogoșoaia Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-mogosoaia) — 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. - [Palace of Culture in Iași](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-culturii-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. - [Suceava Princely Fortress](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-de-scaun-a-sucevei) — 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 Palace in Cluj-Napoca](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-banffy-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. - [Cuza Palace in Ruginoasa](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-cuza-ruginoasa) — Castles and palaces · Ruginoasa, IS · 40 lei · 45 min · Top 100 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. - [Histria Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-histria) — 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. - [Iulia Hasdeu Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-iulia-hasdeu) — Castles and palaces · Câmpina, PH · 18 lei · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100 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. - [Neamț Citadel](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatea-neamt) — 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. - [Palace of Culture in Târgu Mureș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-culturii-targu-mures) — Castles and palaces · Târgu Mureș, MS · 30 lei · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100 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. - [Pelișor Castle](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-pelisor) — 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. - [Primăverii Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-primaverii) — 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. - [Royal Palace](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-regal) — 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/manastirea-sucevita) — Monasteries and churches · Sucevița, SV · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage 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/piata-sfatului-brasov) — Monuments and historic sites · Brașov, BV · Free · 1 – 1½ hours 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. - [Banat Village Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-satului-banatean) — 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. - [Baroque Palace of Oradea](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-baroc-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. - [Brâncoveanu Palace in Potlogi](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/palatul-brancovenesc-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. - [Brâncoveni Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-brancoveni) — Monasteries and churches · 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. - [Craiova Art Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-de-arta-craiova) — 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. - [Cuza Vodă House in Galați](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/casa-cuza-voda-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/casa-darvas-la-roche) — 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 Gusti National Village Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-national-al-satului-dimitrie-gusti) — Museums and memorial houses · București · 40 lei · 2 – 2½ hours 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. - [First Romanian School](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/prima-scoala-romaneasca) — 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. - [George Enescu Memorial House in Liveni](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/casa-memoriala-george-enescu-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. - [Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-de-istorie-naturala-grigore-antipa) — 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. - [Horezu Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-horezu) — Monasteries and churches · Horezu, VL · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage 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. - [Ipotești Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/memorialul-ipotesti) — 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. - [Kálnoky Castle in Micloșoara](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/castelul-kalnoky-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. - [Mărășești Mausoleum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/mausoleul-de-la-marasesti) — 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/bastionul-maria-theresia) — 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. - [Memorial of the December 1989 Revolution](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/memorialul-revolutiei-timisoara) — 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/muzeul-de-arta-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 the Romanian Peasant](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-national-al-taranului-roman) — 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. - [Panait Istrati Memorial House](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/casa-memoriala-panait-istrati-braila) — 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. - [Székely National Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-national-secuiesc) — 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. - [Țării Crișurilor Museum](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-tarii-crisurilor) — 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. - [Tulcea Aquarium](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/acvariul-tulcea) — Zoos and aquariums · Tulcea, TL · 30 lei · ½ – 1 hours 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. - [Vasile Pârvan Museum, Bârlad](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzeul-vasile-parvan-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. - [Weavers' Bastion](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bastionul-tesatorilor) — 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. --- Full page: https://peplaiuri.ro/en/muzee-si-case-memoriale Other languages: Română: https://peplaiuri.ro/muzee-si-case-memoriale.md · Deutsch: https://peplaiuri.ro/de/muzee-si-case-memoriale.md · Italiano: https://peplaiuri.ro/it/muzee-si-case-memoriale.md Source: Pe Plaiuri (https://peplaiuri.ro/en) — Guide to tourist attractions in Romania