Avramide House - House of Collections
Between 1897 and 1899, the Greek merchant Alexandru Avramide built himself a house next to St. Nicholas Cathedral in Tulcea. The façade is Belle Époque, with stucco and tall window…
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Between 1897 and 1899, the Greek merchant Alexandru Avramide built himself a house next to St. Nicholas Cathedral in Tulcea. The façade is Belle Époque, with stucco and tall window…
The poet Panait Cerna was born in the village of the same name, between Tulcea and Măcin. In 1966 his brother gave the locality the parental house - a craftsman's dwelling from the…
In Cobadin, 30 kilometres from Constanța, a house from 1927 was lived in until almost the present day. On 5 June 2023, the Democratic Turkish Union of Romania opened an ethnographi…
In 1910, at the end of the seafront, a casino designed by architect Daniel Renard opened in Art Nouveau lines. On the same promontory there had already been an 1880 Kursaal and an…
Next to the Tulcea promenade, a three-level building holds the Delta's ecotourism museum centre. The exhibition is interactive: habitats from Razim-Sinoe to the plateau and the Măc…
Vasile Pârvan opened the excavation at Histria in 1914. After him came Scarlat Lambrino, Emil Condurachi, Dionisie Pippidi. The museum at the site gate, reorganized in 1982, holds…
In the 4th century, Tomis had on the shore a warehouse-terrace with a mosaic floor, linked to the harbour. The building was brought to light under the seafront and covered with a p…
On C.A. Rosetti Street no. 5 in Sulina, a former navigator has filled a house with maps, photographs, documents and objects from the nineteenth-century port. The “Old Sulina” exhib…
In 1575, Esmahan Sultan - daughter of Selim II and wife of the grand vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha - funded a mosque in Mangalia. It is the oldest surviving Muslim place of worship i…
After the Crimean War (1853–1856), Sultan Abdul-Medjid ordered a new town for the Tatars who had come from Crimea. Medgidia was laid out on a plan, and the great mosque was built i…
The museum in Tulcea bought in the 1970s a household from the village of Enisala and conserved it on the spot. The house is from the beginning of the 20th century: entrance room, l…
On the Stipoc sandbar, in the Delta, stands a wooden skete raised by Old Believers some 15 years ago. The style is Moldavian: lace cut into the beams, a porch, a low little church.…
Torrential rains in the 1970s brought to light, at Niculițel, the dome of a crypt. Inside were the bones of the martyrs Zotikos, Attalos, Kamasis and Filippos, with the names writt…
The museum in Hârșova takes its name from the fortress on the rock. The collection covers Hamangia, Gumelnița, the Roman period and the Danube Middle Ages. There are pieces from th…
Beside the Tropaeum Traiani monument, the museum at Adamclisi holds the pieces that explain the victory of 102: metopes, weapons, inscriptions, a model of the fortress. Trajan mark…
On 3 June 2006, Cernavodă opened the Axiopolis Museum in an older building, restored. The thread is clear: from the Thinker of Cernavodă (the Hamangia pair, 6th–3rd millennia BC) t…
If you want to understand where Mangalia began, start in the town centre, at the museum opened in 1959. The collection is built around Callatis: the colony of Dorians who came from…
The physician Gheorghe Vintilă, a son of the village of Topalu, collected Romanian painting over a lifetime - from Grigorescu to the interwar artists. The collection, put in the na…
Founded in 1964, the museum in Medgidia first stood in improvised spaces, then moved into a former high school. It bears the name of the painter Lucian Grigorescu, born here. The c…
The building on Tomis Boulevard dates from 1895. It was first a picture gallery, then a county museum. The collection starts from Theodor Aman and Nicolae Grigorescu and reaches th…
Panaghia House, in the centre of Babadag, was part of a Muslim seminary built on the site of a 17th-century madrasa. In the 20th century it had other uses. Since 1970 it has housed…
Between 1893 and 1896 Constanța's first town hall was built, next to the place where the She-Wolf stands today. Since 1975 the building has been a folk art museum. The ceiling of t…
In Vișina, Jurilovca commune, some 69 km from Tulcea, Paraschiva Constantin opened her house in 2006. She has gathered Dobrogea and Bulgarian folk dress, shirts, woven rugs, ninete…
Between 1863 and 1865 the Pasha's Manor, seat of the sanjak, was built at 2 Grigore Antipa Street. It was a prefecture, then an administrative seat; since 1982 it has been the Art…
Between 1924 and 1927, on the Danube bank in Tulcea, the National Bank headquarters was built. After the bank left, the tall halls were given to the museum of ethnography and folk…
In Ovidiu Square, in the communal palace of 1912–1921, stands the national history and archaeology museum. The collection runs past 430,000 pieces - the second of its kind in the c…
On the seafront, next to the statue of Anghel Saligny, an early-20th-century villa - once a prefect's residence - has housed since 1968 the works of the sculptor Ion Jalea, born in…
On the night of 8–9 July 1854, in the Crimean War, Captain Hyde Parker died at Sulina, in an attack on the batteries at the mouth. The ships Firebrand and Vesuvius had bombarded th…
In Mila 23, on the bank of the Old Danube, the house-museum opened in May 2024 gathers boats, medals, photographs and family objects of Ivan Patzaichin. The village was his birthpl…
In 1965, in the former Naval School on the way out toward Vama Veche, commodores Filaret Popescu and Dan Nicolaescu opened a navy section. From 1969 it was recognized nationally. Y…
The Constanța branch of the King Ferdinand I National Military Museum stands on Prelungirea Liliacului, in a district of houses, not in the centre. The exhibition covers the War of…
In the former Naval School building, the museum gathers more than 37,000 pieces: compasses, guns, ship models, uniforms, maps. The thread runs from ancient navigation - including s…
In Independence Monument Park, on the hill that dominates Tulcea, the history and archaeology museum stands above the old fortress of Aegyssus. The entrance is through the park, so…
Between 1910 and 1914, on the breakwater at the harbour mouth, a small pavilion was built for Queen Elisabeth, next to the Carol I Lighthouse. From there she watched the sea; the p…
At the edge of Tulcea, on the bank of Lake Zaghen, an open-air museum remakes a fishermen's household: wooden houses, reed and adobe, a windmill, a fish-processing shed, net and ic…
Since 1969, the Natural Sciences Museum Complex has also kept an observatory, built in the years when space flights were daily news. You have a telescope for the Sun and for clear…
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