All ethnology museums to visit in Romania

Explore the cultural diversity and heritage at 6 ethnology museums in Romania. These museums offer insights into the traditions, customs, and ways of life of various communities.

Are you interested in learning about different cultures and their histories? Here are the ethnology museums to visit in Romania:

  1. Romanian Peasant Museum1

    Romanian Peasant Museum

     Bucharest
    The Romanian Peasant Museum (National Museum of the Romanian Peasant) is a museum devoted to peasant life, housed in a in a Neo-Romanian style historical building.The museum holds the richest collection of peasant objects in Romania, with around 90.000 pieces on the subject. The Romanian Peasant Mus
  2. Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania2

    Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania

     Cluj-Napoca
    The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography is a history museum in Cluj-Napoca that is housed in the Reduta Palace. The museum holds a collection of over 50,000 objects that illustrate the occupations, the habits and life in general of the Transylvanian rural population. Furthermore, the museum holds a
  3. Museum of the History of the Romanian Jewish Community3

    Museum of the History of the Romanian Jewish Community

     Bucharest
    The Museum of the History of the Romanian Jewish Community in Bucharest is a history museum dedicated to the history of the Jews in Romania. The displays include a collection of books related to Romanian Jews, an archive of the history of Romanian Jewry, paintings of and by Romanian Jews, memorabili
  4. National Museum of Old Maps and Books4

    National Museum of Old Maps and Books

     Bucharest
    The National Museum of Old Maps and Books is housed in a villa built in the 1920's. The main collection of the museum was donated by the family of Professor Adrian Năstased and is enriched with other donations of graphic works and maps. The collections consists of more than 1000 works from the 16th
  5. Museum of Banat5

    Museum of Banat

     Timișoara
    The Museum of Banat is a history museum that is housed in the Huniade Castle dedicated to history, archaeology, ethnography and natural sciences. The museum holds a collection of archaeological objects related to Banat. On the ground floor, the museum houses a monument of the Parța Neolithic Sanctu
  6. National Museum of Transylvanian History6

    National Museum of Transylvanian History

     Cluj-Napoca
    The National Museum of Transylvanian History in Cluj-Napoca is a history and archaeology museum. The museum holds collections on antiquities botany, zoology and mineralogy. The collection of the National Museum of Transylvanian History is presented in chronological order, giving visitors a good insi