Museums and memorial houses of Baia Mare
The Village Museum
Situated across the street from the Etnography Museum, it displays authentic traditional wooden houses and technical installations from the four Maramures ethnographic areas. The museum holds a wooden church built in Chechis in 1630 and brought and exhibited here in 1939.
The History and Archaeology Museum
Opened in 1904 in the buildings of the former Baia Mare mint (coin factory), the museum holds various and valuable collections of seals/stamps, tools used by medieval guilds, weapons, wall-clocks, old cameras, ancient ceramics, mining tools, numismatics (coins, military medals), etc.
The Mineralogy Museum
The most important mineralogy museum in Romania holds a vast and impressive inventory of minerals and gems extracted from the Maramures mines, many of them being rare or even unique in the world. The museum has recently opened a new wing where more minerals and gems out of the 16.000 held by the museum will be on display.
The Ethnography and Villatic Art Museum
The museum has a permanent exhibition presenting traditional activities, crafts, costumes/clothing, tools and religious objects specific for all ethnographic areas of Maramures.
The Art Museum
Hosted in an XVIII century building, the museum displays a rich and valuable permanent collection of paintings, sculptures and graphic art. Most of these are the creation of artists belonging to the well-known Baia Mare Painting School, artistic organisation that recently celebrated more than 110 years of activity. Besides the permanent collection, the museum organises temporary exhibitions from various artistic fields.
The Planetarium
Unveiled in 1969, it is the first planetarium to be errected in Romania offering daily shows about stars, planets and astronomical phenomenon. Besides the scientific side, the Planetarium holds a valuable philatelic collection with more than 650 stamps from more than 65 countries. The collection is available for visiting only upon request.