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The Church of the Rest Home is located on Azilului Street, but you can also arrive here through a patio that opens right below the Stairs Tower. The church was mentioned for the first time in 1292, as a church consisting of a hall made entirely of brick, with square shaped loft and polygonal sanctuary. In 1760, the church was rehabilitated thus acquiring the aspect of today. On the outside, the aisle of the church has a ridged roof and a small sheet metal tower, the apsis having a pyramidal roof. There are three strong buttresses at the corners of the apsis. On the outside we can see the old bell from the tower. It is the oldest bell of Sibiu, dating since 1509. It bears the inscription „ad iuva nos deus”. It is 112 cm high and it has a diameter of 44 cm. Allegedly, on the spot of this church there used to be an older stone building, mentioned in a document of 1292 as being a hospital. It is the oldest documented mention of a hospital in Romania.

This is an orthodox church built during 1788 - 1789 on the expense of the widow Stana Hagi Petru Luca and rebuilt during 1802 - 1803 by her son-in-law after it was destroyed in the earthquake of October 26th, 1802. The building itself isn’t an edifice to shine through its architectonic value, being a simple one, namely it has a hall with apsis and tower, below which there is a threshold, in the West side, all on the same longitudinal axis. There aren’t any lateral apsides on the outside or on the inside. Instead, the apsis of the shrine is semi-circular, with a smaller width than the aisle. In respect to the facades, although simple, they are decorated with Doric capitals pilasters. The construction is made of brick, on which hot lime was cast which resulted in a strong structure similar to cement. The floor is made of stone slabs. Meanwhile it was replaced by white marble. If we refer to the inside, the elements that stand out are the oil portraits of the three founders: Hagi Constantin Pop, Stana Hagi Petru Luca and Păuna, wife of Hagi Constantin Pop. The altarpiece belongs to 1802 made of oak, with oil painting and baroque elements.

The motto of Emanuel Church of Sibiu: „Light in the world and Church on the street!”

"Dintre Brazi" Church is the oldest Romanian place of worship of Sibiu, its name coming from the firs surrounding the building. The edifice was built during 1778-1788 in baroque style, on a land donated for this purpose by the Empress Maria Terezia, on the request of Bishop Grigore Maior. The funding of the construction was also done by Bishop Grigore Maior. The idea to build a Romanian church on the exterior side of the fortification of Sibiu is older, belonging to Bishop Inochentie Micu-Klein (1734). The edifice is a church consisting of a hall supporting a dome on an oval shaped tambour. Both the façade and the interior have baroque elements such as massive columns, pilasters and shell motif. The altar piece was painted by Joseph Neuhäuser in 1795. It the cemetery of the church there are numerous funerary monuments, declared historical monuments, of prominent personalities of the Romanian Transylvanian culture: George Bariţiu, Alexandru Papiu-Ilarian, David Urs, Ioan Raţiu, Iosif Sterca-Şuluţiu. The titular saints of this Church are the Saint Apostles Peter and Paul.

Biserica Evanghelică C.A. Gușterița Sibiu

The entire building compound was built during 1881-1883, as an orphanage of the A.C. Evangelic community. In 1883, on the 400 years anniversary of Martin Luther, the church was built in neo-gothic style. During 1911-1912, it was demolished because of the risk of collapse and a new one was built next to a priest’s house. Concomitantly the constructions also continued on Bastionului Street. The church is shaped like a cross, in the Northern side there are the octagonal bell-tower and the four towers in the corners. The edifice still preserves the architectural aspect since the beginning of the 20th century. In the church there are two polyptych shrines: the shrine of Fisier (East) dedicated to St. Martin and the shrine of Roades (West). The paintings of the four evangelists flanking the central panel were painted by Johann Stoss. The statues of St. John the Baptiser and St. Evangelist John on the central panel of the shrine of Roades, are part of the most beautiful Transylvanian sculptures. They are attributed to the woodworker Veit Stoss.

After joining the religious reform, the city of Sibiu was left for almost 150 years without a Catholic church. As a result of the Leopoldine Diploma in 1691, Austrian troupes arrived in Sibiu, together with Catholic military priests. For the soldiers it was allowed to celebrate the Catholic service in the so called Hall of Tailors from the Large Squar, right on the spot of the Catholic church of today. After long talks with the protestant council of the city, the construction of a Catholic parochial church was able to start. On July 4th 1726 the headstone was place and on September 13th, 1733, the church was sanctified by the Bishop of Transylvania, Baron Georg von Zorger. The church, built by the Jesuits, stands out due to its early Viennese baroque style, with a simple exterior and interior full of decorative elements. The decorative elements (bells, triglyphs, volutes, shells) are also specific to other monuments of the baroque style in Sibiu that followed the pattern of the Jesuit church. The interior structure of the church is that of a rectangular shaped hall, with a tribune on the Southern side. The confession chairs are dating since the Jesuit period. The painting of the aisle was done by the German painter Ludwig Kandler and is dating since 1904. The interior fresco decorating the main shrine is extremely valuable, a representation of the Virgin and Child. The stained glass windows were manufactured in 1901 in Budapest. The current organ of the church, installed in 1860, was manufactured by the organ manufacturer Karl Hesse of Vienna. Another interior valuable element is the funerary monument of the General Count Otto Ferdinand Traum of Abensberg (1677-1747), military commander of Transylvania during 1744-1747. The monument is on the right side of the shrine, being manufactured by the carver Anton Schuchbanu of Cluj. The tower of the church has a representation of an arched alleyway, connecting the Large Square to the Small Square of Sibiu. The tower was finalized in 1738 and it has four tall stories and a dome. The tower clock with dials towards the two squares is dating since 1838. On the other side of the tower, the crest of the roof is provided with a light turret.

The Calvinist Reformed Church is located nearby the "Sfânta Treime" Orthodox Cathedral (“Holy Trinity”), on Mitropoliei Street. It is a reformed place of worship (Calvinist), built during 1784-1786, under the leadership of master Samuel Krempels and woodworker Johannes Schneider. The official inauguration of the place of worship took place on November 26th, 1786. The Calvinist Reformed Church was built in a baroque style, being a sober monument, with a narrow façade on the West side, over which a bell-tower raises. The tower is slim, square shaped, with windows towards all four cardinal points and over each of them there is a clock. The tower has a pyramidal shaped six-ridge roof. The entry gate is simple and it has a stone rectangular framework with a labelled panel and a triangular pediment. On the inside, the church is shaped like a hall with apsis, with a semi-circle arch. Towards the shrine there is pulpit with baldachin decorated with gilded motifs and roses festoons. In the Western side of the church there is an organ placed on a tribune supported by massive columns. Next to the church there is the Reformed Parochial House. The building has one story and the middle of the façade from the ground floor is cut through by a gangway that connects Mitropoliei Street with Xenopol Street. The house is estimated to have been built in the 15th century but it was rehabilitated during 1784-1786, when it was bought by the reformed community.

The Franciscan Church is located on Şelarilor Street, being built in gothic style in the 15th century. It initially belonged to the order of Saint Clare. After the instauration of the religious reform, the church is transformed into a grain store, the building down-grading gradually. On February 12th, 1716, General Steinville donates the church to the Franciscan monks who renovate it. On December 28th, 1776 the gothic choir partition collapses, killing Toma Kielbach and injuring several monks. The church is renovated with the support of Empress Maria Tereza, being transformed into a baroque style church. On the inside it is a baroque style church shaped like a hall, arched in semi-circle, with a tribune above the Northern side. What stands out is the stone funerary monument of the General Count Damian Hugo von Virmond (1666-1722), military commander of Transylvania. In the crypt of the church there are several tombstones, including the one of Johann Haller, Governor of Transylvania. Extremely valuable is the gothic sculpture of polychromatic wood dating since the 15th century, representing a Virgin with Child, carved by a nun. The building that used to accommodate the former monastery is annexed to the church. The tower of the church has almost 21,40 m and the exterior dimensions are approximately 36 m long and 16,5 m width.

The Church of the Ursulines is a Roman-Catholic church located in the centre of Sibiu, on Gheorghe Magheru Street. It was built in the 15th century and it name comes from the nuns patronized by St. Ursula. The Ursulines Church was originally the church of the Dominican Monastery. In 1728, after the instauration of the Austrian administration in Transylvania, the edifice of the former Dominican Monastery was handed over to the Ursuline nuns, being populated by a group of nuns brought from Pojon. Initially, the building of the church was built in gothic style, very similar to the Franciscan church. During 1728-1733, the Ursuline nuns rebuilt the church in baroque style. The edifice preserves to this day some gothic elements such as the buttresses, the threefold windows in the superior side and the late gothic gate on the Western façade. Subsequently, the construction was rehabilitated and modified several times. On the Western façade of the church, above the entry gate, there is the statue of St. Ursula in a semi-circle housing. The statue of St. Ursula is placed on a baroque style die, below which there is a blue label with the inscription "Ursula". An unprecedented element is the inscription above triumphal arch that reminds us of the benefactor of the church, the Empress Maria Terezia. The letters of the Latin text, marked in red, indicated the year of the last major renovation (1774). The church has three relatively recent shrines on the inside. At the moment, the Church of the Ursulines is used both by the Roman-Catholic community and by the Greek-Catholic community of Sibiu. The Roman-Catholic religious services are celebrated in Latin language on Mondays, Wednesday and Saturday and in German language on Sundays and on commandment holy days.

In Sibiu, even before the year 1242, on the outside of the citadel walls, there was a church of the Dominican Monks Order. In 1417, the Austrian sculptor Peter Lantregen chiselled in stone a monumental crucifix with two characters, Pained Virgin Mary and Saint Apostle John. The giant crucifix was in the church of the monastery. Being located on the outside of the citadel’s walls, the Dominican monastery is frequently exposed to enemy attacks, reason for which the monks deserted it in the second half of the 15th century subsequently building a new institution, the current church of the Ursulines. After the fire and demolition of the old Dominican church, the giant crucifix was fallen to the ground and covered by rubble until a 1683 when the city Council raised the cross again. IN 1755 the Transylvanian counsellor Martin Wankel von Seeberg required the construction of a chapel around the monolithic cross, which is preserved today. In 1954, „Sfânta Cruce” chapel (“Holy Cross”) was declared historical monument. Over more than 50 years the chapel was cared for by the Polish refugee community of Sibiu from Basarabia and Bucovina.

The permanent exhibition of Romanian Art was opened in the halls of the Blue House on November 25th, 2009. The exhibition circuit follows the painting evolution in Romania during the 18th – 20th century, based on chronologic and stylistic elements on display. The exhibition concept comparatively and synchronically emphasizes the representative artists of the national art and what it is specific to the Brukenthal collection: Transylvanian painting background (one of the richest of the country) completed with highly valued works of the modern and inter-war Romanian painting, until after the middle of the 20th century. Thus, the selection underlines the influences which the European art had over the national art, the interferences of the two artistic environments but also its specificity / originality. Without ignoring the creation of the Transylvanian painters Johann Martin Stock, Franz Neuhauser, Mişu Popp, Carl Dörschlag, Arthur Coulin or Octavian Smigelschi, who overreach with the charm and the unprecedented picturesque of their works, the new exhibition, based on the criterion of value, offers to the visiting public established works created by the following artists: Theodor Aman, Nicolae Grigorescu, Ion Andreescu, Ştefan Luchian, Hans Mattis-Teutsch, Corneliu Mihăilescu, Gheorghe Petraşcu, Theodor Pallady, Nicolae Tonitza, Alexandru Ciucurencu, Corneliu Baba, Ion Ţuculescu

From August 26, 2024 to September 3, 2024, St. Mary's Evangelical Cathedral is closed for the GEKE event. It can be visited from September 04, 2024. Thank you for your understanding. Visiting schedule - 01 April 2024 - 30 September 2024 Mondays: - 10:00 - 20:00 Tuesday - 10:00 - 12:00 - 12:00 - 12:30 - religious service - 12:30 - 20:00 Wednesday - 10:00 - 12:00 - 12:00 - 12:30 - religious service - 12:30 - 20:00 Thursday - 10:00 - 12:00 - 12:00 - 12:30 - religious service - 12:30 - 20:00 Friday - 12:00 - 13:00 - organ concert - 13:00 - 20:00 - 20:00 - 20:30 - religious service Saturday -10:00 - 20:00 Sunday -11:30 - 20:00 The tower can be visited daily at the same time, guided tours are available on request. Adult tickets: Church - 10 lei Tower - 10 lei Church and tower: 15 lei     Pensioners/pupils/students: Church - 5 lei Tower - 5 lei Church and tower: 10 lei    Children up to 6 years old are free. Translated with DeepL.com (free version) .......................... Located in Albert Huet Square, it is one of the most impressive gothic places of worship of Romania. On its location there used to be a Romanic basilica (12th century), a cemetery, three chapels and a school.  The Evangelic Parochial Church (14th century) has a massive 73,34 m high bell-tower, making it visible from almost any corner of Sibiu. The seven-story tower has four turrets at the corners, symbolizing that in the past the city had the right to death sentence.  The interior of the place can be seen as well, the balcony on the Southern side housing the manuals of the grate electropneumatic organ, in front of the prospect from 1672 built by the Slovak master Johann West and decorated in baroque style. The new organ was manufactured by the Wilhelm Sauer company (Frankfurt/Oder) and installed in the Sibian church in 1915.  Another attraction is the brass baptismal font, located in the axis of the church, decorated with 228 embossed plaques, many of them being figurative representations of byzantine influence. The baptismal font is shaped like a giant cup with a base, stand, joint and basin and is dating since 1438, being the creation of a master Leonhardus. *photo by: Rareș Helici

"Sfânta Treime" Orthodox Cathedral was built during 1902-1906, on the spot of a Greek church that served until then as an episcopal cathedral. The construction was done during the period of Emperor Franz Josef, cared for by Metropolitan Ioan Mețianu. The idea to build an Orthodox cathedral in Sibiu belonged to Bishop Andrei Șaguna of Transylvania, who, on October 5th, 1857, requested the Emperor Franz Joseph I permission to organize an offertory towards building the construction. The first benefactor was Șaguna himself, who announced on December 4th, 1857 that he donated 2.000 Florins. Emperor Franz Joseph I himself donated 1000 gold pieces, thus becoming one of the founders of the monumental cathedral. The civil works finally amounted to 912.197 Crowns and 24 Fillers, plus the expenses for the purchase of the sanctified tabernacles, ornaments, crosses and books. The Metropolitan Cathedral of Sibiu was sanctified on April 30th/May 13th, 1906, on the Sunday of the Samaritan, by Metropolitan Ioan Mețianu, alongside the Bishop of Arad, Ioan Papp, and a great synod of priests and deacons. Numerous believers attended the sanctification service. The cathedral is 53,10 m long and 25,40 m width at the centre, the dome is 24,70 m high (34,70 m on the outside) and 15 m in diameter, while the towers are 43 m high (45 m crosses included). On the outside, the building is adorned with colourful brick, five rows of yellow brick alternating with three rows of red brick. The entrance of the cathedral is a portico with three semi-circle openings. Behind the portico, between the towers, there is an ample pediment, with a light well decorated with mosaic medallions, representing Jesus and the four evangelists. The five mosaic pieces are manufactured in Munich, according to the drawings of Ludovic Kandler. The furniture of the cathedral was manufactured in Bucharest and Sibiu. The carving of the altarpiece, bishop’s throne, liturgical objects was done by sculptor Constantin (C.M.) Babic of Bucharest, and the pulpit, the two lecterns for the parish clerks, the tetrapod in the middle of the cathedral, 28 lecterns for the priests and 82 for church goers were manufactured by master Emil Pătruțiu of Sibiu. The altarpiece is made of gilded lime wood. The titular saint of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Sibiu is "Sfânta Treime” (the “Holy Trinity”).

The Steam Locomotives Museum was inaugurated in Sibiu on August 23rd, 1994. The collection activity of the most valuable steam locomotives of the Romanian railway network started since 1991. Today over 30 steam locomotives, ploughs and steam cranes that crossed the Romanian railway over one hundred years ago are made available to the public. The exhibits were built during 1885 and 1959 at Domeniilor Reşiţa Factory, 23 August Factory and Malaxa Factory of Romania, Schwartzkopff Factory, Orenstein & Koppel Factory, Borsig Factory of Berlin, Mavag Factory of Budapesta, Skoda Factory and others, including in Austria, Sweden and USA. Among them there are locomotives with wide track spacing and for narrow-gauge railway, the so-called funicular railway (narrow-gauge railway trains, which used to cross mountain areas). Two of these locomotives are functional and used on various occasions. On December 31st, 2000, the locomotives were declared, by order to the minister of culture, treasury patrimony, being protected by the law.

După o lungă perioadă de pregătire, am deschis pentru public Galeria Turismului Montan, o expoziție tematică care acoperă 150 de ani de turism montan în Carpați. Vă așteptăm la Cârțișoara, nr. 420 (pe Transfăgărășan), de Marți până Duminică între orele 10-18. Pentru vizitare ne puteți contacta la tel. 0722491435

Muzeu de artă new media în Sibiu. Pregătește-te pentru o experiență imersivă de neuitat. Program de vizitare Luni – Duminică: 10:00 – 22:00 Ultima oră de acces: 21:00 Închiderea instalațiilor și evacuarea spațiului se face la ora 22:00 BILETE AICI  • Copii sub 3 ani au acces gratuit. Peste vârsta de 3 ani toți vizitatorii achită biletul întreg. • Valabilitate bilete: Biletul este valabil 30 de zile de la data achiziției. • Biletul asigură un singur acces general pentru o persoană în toate încăperile vizitabile ale Immersive Museum Sibiu și la toate instalațiile și experiențele existente în program în ziua în care se realizează vizita. Durata vizitei este limitată doar de programul de închidere a muzeului în ziua intrării. Valabilitatea biletului încetează în momentul părăsirii spațiului IMS.

The mission of the ASTRA Museum is, for more than 100 years, to connect the audience with traditional values, through continuous change to the cultural needs of the society. Whether we are talking about Romanian, Saxon, other minority or even extra-European heritage, the ASTRA Museum is the keeper and the provider of the authentic values ​​to the community. Although its profile is ethnographic, the mission of the ASTRA Museum goes beyond the exclusive promotion of the traditional, becoming a true cultural promoter at the fusion between old and new, traditional and modern, national and global. To remain relevant to its audience, ASTRA Museum invests in programs meant to improve the cultural life of the community and encourage people to turn tradition into an active part of their daily lives. It has four museums with an extremely rich heritage varied regarding the geographical origin but also of the message it carries, the central goal of the ASTRA Museum is to represent a standard of good practices in Romanian and international museology. [Image] Successor and keeper of the heritage and values ​​of ”The Museum of the Association”, ”The Museum of Transylvanian Civilization ASTRA”, integral part of the ”C.N.M. ASTRA”, brings to its visitors, the charming world of the multiethnic Transylvania. A simple walk through the 96 hectares of ”The ASTRA Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization”, reveals to visitors an image of rural life throughout our country, exhibited in over 400 houses, household annexes and technical installations. ”Emil Sigerus – The Museum of Saxon Ethnography”, curator of Saxon culture and civilization in Transylvania, successor of the Carpathian Museum, has the most important ethnographic collections with a Saxon profile, with the name of the great personality, with significant merits in this field, Emil Sigerus. ”Franz Binder – The Museum of Universal Ethnography” is the only museum in Romania with the profile of capitalizing on extra-European heritage. Being in conservation for the moment, the museum defines its vision as an anthropological museum of world cultures, meant to understand the social phenomena of contemporary society. ”The ASTRA Center for Heritage”, with its facilities, solves the issue of conservation and restoration on all types of support, based on solid theoretical and practical knowledge. Saving heritage requires dedication, understanding, knowledge and perseverance in the process of conservation and restoration the objects and monuments that are physical, chemical and biological degraded. ”The Conservation and Restoration Training Center” – represents a substructure within the ASTRA Museum which has two essential missions among the museum functions. The first involves the preventive conservation of collections, and the second, the professional development of those who contribute to the preservation of cultural heritage. “ASTRA Museum” – publishing house, was established in 1995, continuing and developing the publication of monographs and periodicals initiated in 1966 by the specialized team led by Cornel Irimie, founder of the Open Air Museum in Dumbrava Sibiului.

Inaugurated in 2007, within “Friedrich Teutsch” Culture and Dialogue Centre, the A.C. Evangelic Church Museum of Romania presents a panorama of the Augustan Confession (Lutheran) Evangelic Church history in Romania, as well as a of the community and religious life of the Transylvanian Saxons. Located on the 1st floor of Teutsch House, on a surface of approximately 400 sm, the permanent exhibition is structured in chronological and thematic sections as follows: - Arrival of German colonists in Transylvania; - Fortified churches of the Transylvanian Saxons; - Lutheran Protestant reform; - Community life joined by the church; - Church and school, priests and masters; - Sacral art; - From counter-reforms to the watershed of the millennia. The exhibition ends with a glimpse to the future from the perspective of the situation occurred after 1990: the Church in diaspora. The treasury of the museum included works of the most famous goldsmiths of Transylvania. A particular attraction is the special collection of dolls dressed in festive Transylvanian Saxon costumes that differ according to geographical region and wearer’s age.

The Museum of Hunting is named after one of the important personalities of the city of Sibiu in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries: Colonel August von Spiess, the Keeper of the Royal Hunting under the King Ferdinand I of Romania.   The Museum opened as the first of its profile on the national level, in the year 1966, being accommodated in the Von Spiess residence, donated on this porpoise by the Colonel’s daughters.   The collection comprises about 1600 items.  The Museum courtyard in the back of the building was arranged to serve as a relaxation open space for the visitors and a proper environment for ecological education of children as it hosts many species of plants, a dog, fishes and a tortoise. 

The ASTRA Transylvanian Civilization Museum, founded in 1993, is the treasurer of the patrimony values inherited from the “Society” Museum (founded in 1905, by the Transylvanian Society for the Culture and Literature of the Romanian People and dissolved, according to a communistic dictate, in 1950). The museum has a patrimony of 9.002 items registered under the emblem “A”, divided into six collections: 6.523 embroideries, 1.025 costume-textiles, 567 objects of worship, 539 wood, bone, iron, 330 ceramic and 18 dolls. The collections increased, in the final half of the century, having today 30.138 items, of which: 8.740 costume-textiles, 9.884 embroideries, 3.960 ceramic, 4.147 objects of worship, 3.407 wood, bone, iron. Over the years, these patrimony values were presented at various exhibitions organized in the country and abroad, until the closing of the folk art Exhibition of Brukenthal Palace, in 1990. ASTRA Transylvanian Civilization Museum is imagined as a multi-ethnic and interdisciplinary museum and its purpose is to define the multicultural aspect of a European region with a multi-secular pluri-ethnical cohabitation, as well as the emphasis of these European community and ethnic particular values. ASTRA Transylvanian Civilization Museum initiated and applied the modern concept of „museum vivum”, with the purpose of saving, preserving and capitalizing the folk culture. Thus, under the phrase Live Human Treasures, the museum organizes the Fair of Folk Creators of Romania, the National Olympics „Traditional artistic crafts”, the National Festival of Traditions, the National Festival of Folk Heritage and Customs, the National Toys Fair, the Potters Fair (in collaboration with the National Centre for the Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Cultures) etc. At the same time, ASTRA Transylvanian Civilization Museum organizes temporary exhibitions in the halls of „Hermes House” and „House of Arts”.

PROGRAM DE VIZITARE: PALATUL BRUKENTHAL MUZEUL DE ISTORIE-CASA ALTEMBERGER MUZEUL DE ISTORIE NATURALĂ MUZEUL DE ARTĂ CONTEMPORANĂ   Luni – Marţi: ÎNCHIS Miercuri - Duminică: 9-17, casieria se închide la ora 16:15 (Palatul Brukenthal, Muzeul de Istorie), respectiv 16:30 (Muzeul de Istorie Naturală, Muzeul de Artă Contemporană). CALENDAR LUCRĂRI DE CURĂȚENIE ȘI CONSERVARE 2026 Palatul Brukenthal: 12 ianuarie - 03 februarie - ÎNCHIS Muzeul de Istorie-Casa Altemberger: 02 februarie - 17 februarie - ÎNCHIS Muzeul de Istorie Naturală: 16 februarie - 03 martie - ÎNCHIS Muzeul Cinegetic „August von Spiess” și Muzeul de Istorie a Farmaciei rămân ÎNCHISE pentru o perioadă nedeterminată.  Cele două locații se deschid pentru grupuri de minim 10 persoane cu programare, cu 24 h înainte, la adresa de e-mail: secretariat@brukenthalmuseum.ro. Vă mulțumim pentru înțelegere! PROGRAM BIBLIOTECĂ    Anunț!  Având în vedere faptul că biblioteca Muzeului Național Brukenthal se află în proces de inventariere, programul sălii de lectură pe parcursul anului 2026 va fi în fiecare zi de joi a săptămânii, în intervalul orar 10:00–14:00, doar cu programare prealabilă cu minimum 5 zile lucrătoare înainte, la adresa de e-mail: secretariat@brukenthalmuseum.ro Vă mulțumim pentru înțelegere!   Muzeul de Artă Contemporană al Muzeului Naţional Brukenthal este adăpostit de o clădire cu valoare arhitectonică şi istorică, datată 1901, care de-a lungul timpului a adăpostit diverse instituţii de cultură, astăzi redefinindu-se treptat ca o secţiune exclusiv destinată artei contemporane. Muzeul de Artă Contemporană al Muzeului Naţional Brukenthal menţine o poziţie importantă în zona spaţiilor de promovare a artei contemporane româneşti, reprezentând o puternică alternativă la tendinţa unică susţinută de Muzeul Naţional de Artă Contemporană din Bucureşti, având un caracter orientat spre public, spre o selecţie şi o prezentare cât mai liberă şi mai inovatoare a expoziţiilor.  Începând din anul 2014, spațiului destinat expozițiilor temporare aflat la parterul clădirii, i s-a adăugat depozitul vizitabil de artă contemporană, amenajat la etajul I și etajul al doilea al clădirii iar în anul 2019 a fost deschisă o nouă sală de expoziții temporare. Depozitul vizitabil promovează un concept mai puțin cunoscut în România. Piesele sunt prezentate deopotrivă în manieră specifică depozitării (în special lucrările de pictură) cât și liber.   La momentul definitivării procesului de amenajare, pe coridoarele clădirii puteau fi admirate 34 de piese de mari dimensiuni – sculpturi în bronz, lemn și piatră, iar în sala situată la etajul I erau expuse 205 de picturi, 15 tapiserii și 95 de piese tridimensionale.  La etajul al II-lea se află o sală cu perete de sticlă, ce oferă vizitatorului posibilitatea unei perspective de ansamblu asupra depozitului situat la etajul I. 

"Emil Sigerus” Saxons Folk Art and Ethnography Museum is one of the units of "ASTRA" National Museum Compound, founded in 1997, along with the opening of the fundamental exhibition “Transylvanian Tiles. 15th – 19th centuries.”, with the purpose of preserving and promoting the material and immaterial patrimony belonging to the Transylvanian Saxons minority. "Emil Sigerus" Saxons Folk Art and Ethnography Museum took over the ethnographic patrimony owned by the Carpathian Museum (1895-1920). An important role in the improvement of the museum patrimony was that of collector Emil Sigerus, who donated over 500 valuable items, including textiles, painted furniture, glass, tin, silverware, but especially Transylvanian ceramics. The patrimony of "Emil Sigerus" Museum currently has over 8.900 pieces, structured in three collections: ceramics, costumes – textiles – embroideries and painted furniture. Since 2007, the headquarters of the museum operates inside the House of Arts, rehabilitated historic monument, documented mention in 1370.

Inaugurated in 1993, the "Franz Binder" Museum is the first and single museum of extra-European ethnography in Romania. The museum is organised in a historical monument building, built in the Neo-Gothic style between 1865 and 1867, initially as the headquarters for the Small Craftsmen Association and having various other functions over time. After its restoration in 1989 it became the headquarters of the "Franz Binder" Museum. The collections of the "Franz Binder" Museum (approx. 3000 exhibits) are divided into “old” ethnographic collections composed of exhibits donated during the second half of the 19th century and “new” collections which entered in the museum’s patrimony after 1990. The oldest collections are among the most valuable ones. They come from various parts of the world – the African continent being widely represented – and they were mainly collected on the field by members of the local and regional community and then donated to the Sibiu Association of Natural Sciences in Ardeal.

The Zosim Oancea Priest Glass Icons Museum

The Pharmacy History Museum was opened for visitation in 1972, its foundation being based on the long history of the pharmacy in Sibiu, because the first pharmacy on the Romanian territory was documented here (1494). The building of the museum is located in the Small Square at no. 26, representing an architectural historic monument that contains gothic and renaissance elements, dating since 1568. This building housed one of the oldest pharmacies of Sibiu, La Ursul Negru (At the Black Bear), founded around the year 1600. The collections of the museum include over 6.600 pieces that present the evolution of medication and pharmaceutical techniques over the years. The sectors with exhibits of the museum are divided as follows: Dispensary – the traditional component of a pharmacy, where the medicinal products are displayed. The furniture of the room was manufactured in Vienna in 1902 and it belonged to the old pharmacy La Vulturul Negru (At the Black Eagle) of Sibiu. Laboratory – where the following are displayed: medical balances, brass, cast iron and marble mortars, crushing and pulverizing machines, pieces for tablets and suppositories, percolators for medicinal plants tinctures, ceramic and metallic containers, melting pots, measuring tin cups, sieves, filters and laboratory glassware. The Collection of Homeopathy exemplifies the homeopathic therapy tradition in Sibiu, Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of the therapeutic doctrine, lived and was active in Sibiu between 1777 and 1779, as physician and secretary of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, Governor of Transylvania.  The Collection includes over 2.900 pieces, namely kits and bottles of homeopathic recipes, which were taken over from the former apothecary La Înger (At the Angel) in Sibiu.

The History Museum is accommodated by the Altemberger-Pempfflinger House, located on 2nd Mitropoliei Street, headquarters of the City Hall of Sibiu during 1545 and 1948. The ten wings of the building, plus a guard tower, represent the most impressive civil gothic architecture ensemble of Romania and even of South-Eastern Europe. The construction was built by the team led by the stonemason Andreas Lapicida, at the end of the 15th century, upon the guidance of Thomas Altemberger. The oldest part is the tower-house, its construction being initiated at the end of the 13th century. The exhibitions that can be seen here are structured as follows:  - Evolution of human communities of the South of Transylvania, displaying the day to day life during the Palaeolithic, offering an image of life in caves, cottages, households, Roman villa, medieval house;  - Glass in Transylvania and Guilds of Sibiu, depicting human activities from wind processing to specialized production of the guilds;  - Roman lapidary and the Magistrate of Sibiu, evoking the social status and dignity of the leader;  - Weapons and armours, indicating other essential aspects of human existence in these places, such as war or the ritual aspect of religion;  - Thesaurus, containing liturgical silverware pieces.  The touristic exhibition circuit ends with the presentation of the national emancipation movement of the Southern Transylvania, displaying events during the 17th and the 20th centuries. 

The natural history museum was founded in 1849, at the initiative of the Natural Sciences Transylvanian Society, society constituted with the purpose of spreading its discoveries to the community and educating the younger generation about the knowledge and preservation of nature. The headquarters of the Natural Sciences Transylvanian Society was built according to the project of the Architect C.W. Friedrich Maetz of Cluj, the festive inauguration taking place on May 25th, 1895. The building was built in the late Italian Renaissance style, having three stories (underground, ground floor and first floor). The collections of the museum integrate approximately 1.100.000 pieces from different domains such as geology, palaeontology, botany and zoology. We can see here: the herbarium of J. Lerchenfeld (17th century); the herbarium of M. Fuss (1834-1882); the ornithological collection of F. W. Stetter (1853), including indigenous and exotic birds; the ethnographic collection of Palestine, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia of the vice-consul Franz Binder; the Ackner minerals collection; the entomological collection of Dr. Eugen Worell (1957), including insects from Europe, Africa, America and Asia; the butterflies collection of Weindel (1965); the insects collection of H. Hannenheim (1964); the Breckner paleontological collection (1955), mainly including shark teeth of the tertiary collected from Porceşti region (Turnu Roşu); the Nyárádi botany collection (1980); the mineral collection of Dr. E. Bielz (1953); Kimakowicz malacology collection. Since December 21st, 2007, the Natural History Museum of Sibiu displays the most modern natural history exhibition of Romania, the new configuration conferring a special importance to the diorama exhibition, the pieces being displayed in order to reproduce the habitat of each animal within an ecosystem. The garden was set up as a relaxation area for the visitors, but also as an area where one can see common and rare species of plants, such as trees and ornamental scrubs.

Muzeul deține o colecție generoasă de păpuși îmbrăcate în porturi românești, săsești și țigănești, acestea fiind principala atracție. Încă de la intrare se pot observa câteva exponate așezate pe pervazul unui geam. Încăperea unde se află obiectele tradiționale este împărțită în două parți și anume, partea săsească și partea românească. „Am colecționat tot mai mult pentru că aveam senzația că dispare o lume, o lume veche, o lume a regulilor și a disciplinei” spune doamna Maria. Majoritatea obiectelor provin de pe Valea Hârtibaciului și din satul Săsăuș, satul de proveniență al colecționarei. Muzeul poate fi găsit pe Calea Gușteriței, nr. 54 B, iar intrarea este gratuită pentru oricine dorește să facă o mică incursiune în vremuri cu un farmec aparte și este curios să afle povești atât din viața comunității românești, cât și din cea săsească. Programul de vizitare este zilnic între orele 10-12 și 15-19, însă familia Drăgan este dispusă și dornică să primească vizitatori și în afara orarului.     sursa foto: Răzvan Negru sursa text

The Brukenthal Museum is a special institution because it is the first museum established in Romania and Central Europe, in 1817. It owes its existence to one of the most important personalities in Transylvania: Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, the governor of the province in the second half of the eighteenth century.  The Brukenthal Palace and the Baron's collections are the core of today's Brukenthal National Museum, its gates opened to the public since its founding by the testament of its founder.  A visit to the museum is not limited to a single building and to a unique specialization: it becomes a journey presenting multiple aspects of the past and the present, in their metamorphosis. A metamorphosis mirrored into a wide array of objects displayed on 10,000 m2 of exhibitions, of which 5,500 represent new and recently refurbished spaces.  Initially displaying the European painting collection of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal in a single building, today the museum hosts a great diversity of valuable collections in nine buildings. Five of them are palaces built at different times: the earliest building (with foundation elements from the 13th century) is part of the architectural complex hosting the History Museum, while the latest is from 1901, hosting the Contemporary Art Gallery.

The Brukenthal Palace is a symbol of Sibiu City, being the first museum of Romania, open to visitors since 1817. Its existence is due to prominent personalities of Transylvania’s history – Baron Samuel von Brukenthal – Governor of this province in the second half of the 18th century (1777-1787). The palace was built after the pattern of Vienna’s palaces in the late baroque style. Currently, the palace building and the collections of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal represent the core of Brukenthal National Museum. On the first floor of the museum, the visitor is introduced into the atmosphere of the 18th century of the reception Rooms, where the original silk tapestry, painted canvas or oriental motifs decorated board, tile stoves brought from Vienna and gilded lime-wood sculpted medallions (called supraporte) are still preserved. The following exhibitions can be visited: Medieval Art in Transylvania, Anatolian Carpets, as well as the segment with German and Austrian Paintings of the European painting collection. On the second floor of the museum we find other two important segments of the mentioned collection: Flemish and Dutch Painting and Italian Painting. In 2007 the special exhibition entitled Masterpieces of the Brukenthal collection was inaugurated, which includes 23 works that were recovered after being confiscated in 1948 and stolen in 1968. The patios of the Brukenthal Palace were open to visitation in 2008, accommodating the exhibitions of the Plates Study and Cartography Study, as well as the Gessoes Exhibition, Transylvanian stone sculpture during the 13th and 19th centuries and Gothic: neo-gothic experience vs. the illuminist pattern.

Science Museum este un concept, un muzeu în continuă transformare. Este un spațiu de 170mp, unde copiii prin joaca vor descoperi fenomene din domeniul fizicii, chimiei, astronomiei si roboticii

The Grand Synagogue of Sibiu is located on Constituţiei Street, being a Jewish place of worship, built during 1898-1899, in eclectic style. The building consists of a two story rectangular wing. The main façade is coated with red brick. The ground floor is delimited from the first floor by a belt and a frieze made of stone decorated with green motifs. The entrance door and the windows are finished on the upper side in a semi-circle shape. The superior glazed section is decorated with the Star of David. All the windows have on the upper side a white stone framework, finished with a broken arch. The synagogue has three entrances: a central one, on the main façade and two on the side facades. On the main façade there is an entrance door, a twofold wooden door, having above it a transom window made of colourful glass decorated with the Star of David. On the inside, the grand hall has numerous carved elements, with semi-circle arcade decorated with Moorish motifs on the central ceiling. The hall is naturally lit by the numerous windows at the ground floor as well as the first floor. The Moresque arcades are repeated between the multiple colonnades of handrail at the women’s gallery. The ceiling of the building is coffered, being decorated with marquetry drawn and painted by hand in neo-renaissance style.