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The museums of Cluj-Napoca

From the Bánffy Palace to the open-air ethnographic park. Verified addresses, each with its source and the date it was checked.

1. 01

   Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca

   Museum | Piața Unirii 30, 400394 Cluj-Napoca

   The city's art museum, housed in the Bánffy Palace. A thousand searches a month — the second art destination in Cluj after the theatre.

2. 02

   Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei

   Museum | Strada Memorandumului 21, 400114 Cluj-Napoca

   The richest collection of traditional craft in the region — and the natural starting point for any conversation about the Romanian blouse, pottery or weaving.

3. 03

   Muzeul Național de Istorie a Transilvaniei

   Museum | Strada Constantin Daicoviciu 2, 400000 Cluj-Napoca

   The National Museum of Transylvanian History, in the Petrechevich-Horvath House. Two other museums in this guide were born out of its collections.

4. 04

   Parcul Etnografic Romulus Vuia

   Museum | Strada Tăietura Turcului f.n., Cluj-Napoca

   The open-air section of the Ethnographic Museum — vernacular architecture moved and rebuilt.

5. 05

   Muzeul Zoologic

   Museum | Str. Clinicilor, 400006 Cluj-Napoca

   The university museum on Clinicilor street.

6. 06

   Muzeon

   Museum | Strada Virgil Fulicea nr. 3, 400022 Cluj-Napoca

   A museum of Cluj Jewish history. The exhibition on Virgil Fulicea is open until 15 November 2026; the museum is moving to Tipografiei 25.

7. 07

   Muzeul de Mineralogie

   Museum | Strada Mihail Kogălniceanu nr. 1, 400084 Cluj-Napoca

   A university mineralogy museum in the central UBB building on Kogălniceanu. It scores 4.8 on Google, from twenty-one reviews.

8. 08

   Muzeul de Paleontologie și Stratigrafie

   Museum | Strada Mihail Kogălniceanu nr. 1, 400084 Cluj-Napoca

   A university palaeontology museum, in the same building as the Mineralogy Museum. The highest score of the university's museums: 4.9.

9. 09

   MINA Cluj

   Museum | Strada Orăștiei nr. 10, Cluj-Napoca

   An immersive art museum (Museum of Immersive New Art) on Strada Orăștiei: 360° projections, interactive installations and a space for children, across more than 4,000 square metres.

10. 10

    Muzeul Alexandru Duma

    Museum | Calea Moților nr. 11, et. 5, sala 502, 400001 Cluj-Napoca

    The university museum of the First World War, told through the story of the painter Alexandru Duma, a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army.

11. 11

    Muzeul Holocaustului din Nordul Transilvaniei

    Museum | Str. Croitorilor nr. 13, 400162 Cluj-Napoca

    The university museum documenting the Holocaust of the Jews of northern Transylvania, ceded to Hungary in 1940.

12. 12

    Muzeul de Istorie a Universității

    Museum | Str. Mihail Kogălniceanu nr. 4, parter, 400084 Cluj-Napoca

    The museum of the history of the University of Cluj, open since 2001; now temporarily closed for renovation.

13. 13

    Muzeul Memorial David Prodan

    Museum | Str. Academician David Prodan nr. 1, ap. 7, 400275 Cluj-Napoca

    The flat of the historian David Prodan, kept with its furniture, books, letters and family photographs.