Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Statue of Matthias Corvinus
Flanking St Michael's Church to the south is the bulky 1902 equestrian statue of Matthias
Corvinus, the famous Hungarian king and son of Iancu de Hunedoara.
STATUE
National Art Museum
(Piaţa Unirii 30; adult/student 5/3 lei; 10am-5pm Wed-Sun)
On the eastern side of Pi-
aţa Unirii is the National Art Museum, housed inside the baroque Banffy Palace (1791).
The couple of dozen rooms are filled with paintings and artefacts, including a 16th-cen-
tury church altar and many 20th-century paintings. The inner courtyard (free entry) some-
times stage s outdoor shows, as do the ground-floor halls.
ART GALLERY
Pharmaceutical Museum
(Str Regele Ferdinand I; adult/child 5.20/3.10 lei; 10am-4pm Mon-Wed & Fri,
noon-6pm Thu)
Tours are led by a hilarious pharmacist in a white lab coat, who points like
a game-show model towards (seemingly ho-hum) glass cases of ground mummy dust, me-
dieval alchemist symbols and painted 18th-century aphrodisiac bottles.
MUSEUM
Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania
(Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei;
www.muzeul-etnografic.ro
;
Str Memorandumului
21; adult/student 6/3 lei; 9am-4pm Tue-Sat)
Freshly renovated, the Ethnographic Mu-
seum of Transylvania has two floors of well-presented displays featuring tools, weapons,
hand crafts, toys and household items with detailed descriptions in English. It also runs
the open-air
Ethnographic Museum
(adult 6 lei, child free; 9am-5pm Tue-Sun, closed
Apr)
, with 14 traditional buildings; take bus 26, 27 and 28 to Hoia forest from the train
station or bus 30 from the centre.
MUSEUM
NORTH OF CENTRE
Around Piaţa Muzeului, a couple of blocks north of Piaţa Unirii, this charming neighbour-
hood is pleasant to explore on foot, letting you dip into courtyards for a peek at local life
and seeing remnants of archaeological digs that have been going on here since 1991 in the
southern and northeastern sections of the square.
