Cluj-Napoca most popular museums based on attendance.

Below are a few museums from Cluj-Napoca that consistently turn up as the city's most popular, based on attendance. Find the essential info you need to visit today.

National Art Museum Cluj-Napoca (Banffy Palace) - built between 1774 and 1785 on the edge of a rectangular courtyard by Count György Banffy, is considered to be the most representative building in Baroque style in Transylvania. Rococo frontispiece has Banffy family emblem and statues of characters from Roman mythology: Mars, Apollo, Diana, Perseu, Minerva and Hercules. Since 1951, the palace houses the National Art Museum Cluj-Napoca and to the valuable heritage of painting, graphic and decorative art. The core of this heritage is Virgil Cioflec Collection, which gathers the works of artists Co (Nicolae Grigorescu, Stefan Luchian, Demetrius Paciurea) with those of authentic talent (Theodor Pallady, Camil Ressu Vasile Popescu etc.) arranged in more than 20 rooms.

Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania (Ethnographic Park "Romulus Vuia" - founded in 12 April 1929)
Is the first ethnographic museum in Romania, which has held uninterrupted activity, from its foundation until today. This institution has gathered in the eight decades of activity, with patience and scientific competence, tens of thousands of testimonies of civilization from the traditional Romanian.

History Museum of Transylvania, located on Constantin Daicoviciu street, no. 2 in the building known as Petrechevich-Horvath House, is first museum of Transylvania Society Museum associations, founded on 23 November 1859, having rich collection of antiques, mineralogy, botany, an Pinacoteca, a collection of ethnography and zoology.

Pharmacy Museum - since 1573 the building sheltered the first pharmacy in Cluj. Since 1752 the building was leased to private pharmacists, first pharmacist tenant being Mauksch Tobias, came from Hungary, which was also the official Evangelical-Lutheran Church. Today the building houses a collection of the History of Pharmacy Museum of History of Transylvania, whose bases have been made since the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century by Julius Orient.

University Museum - Designed to put in value very rich history of the Cluj university education over the centuries, the work of teachers and students who attended the various faculties, and especially the outstanding Romanian intellectuals in Transylvania heritage of culture and science worldwide, Museum University of Cluj was founded in April 2001. From January 2002 it was extended, now operating in a more enriched form.

Zoological Museum - Founded in 1859, as a section of the Transylvanian Museum, Zoological Museum of Cluj University-dowry gradually increased, now numbering over 300,000 items. Zoological Museum is sheltered on base of University of Biology and is part of Heritage University, Babes-Bolyai''. It is composed of several collections of research animals (malacological Biltz collection, collection lepidopterologica Franzen, Radu izopode collection, etc.).. As scientific value and by number of preserved specimens, Zoological Museum is situated on the 2-nd place fter Museum, Gr Antipa''in Bucharest.