Museums in Romania

Discover 9 unusual museums in Romania.

Little Paris Museum

Bucharest, Romania

Muzeul Micul Paris (Little Paris Museum)

This museum offers a journey back to the Belle Epoque era of Romania.

Doftana Penitentiary.

Telega, Romania

Doftana Penitentiary

This enormous abandoned prison was once dubbed the "Bastille of Romania."

The Clock Tower.

Sighișoara, Romania

Towers of Sighișoara

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

Permanently Closed

Bucharest, Romania

Romanian Kitsch Museum

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

living room

Timișoara, Romania

Museum of the Communist Consumer

A collection of items from a way of life that no longer exists.

Persu, Duesenberg, some tractor-looking thing

Bucharest, Romania

Dimitrie Leonida Technical Museum

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

Wall of boars, guns, antlers and skulls

The "August von Spiess" Museum of Hunting

Packed to the ceiling with antique taxidermy and hunting arms.

The Taxidermy Room

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Zoological Museum

The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

18th century Viennese Apoteka

Pharmacy Museum of Sibiu

A stunning 18th century pharmacy and medieval chemist's collection.

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