MUSEUM OF DACE AND ROMAN CIVILIZATION

At the foot of the citadel, this museum is housed in the Magna Curia palace, Deva's oldest historical building, built in the ^16th century and rebuilt in 1621 in Renaissance style by Prince Gabriel Bethlen. The building underwent its final refurbishment in the early ^18th century, giving it the Baroque appearance that can still be seen today. The museum houses collections of archaeology, history, paintings, coins and more. On the first floor, there's a permanent exhibition of natural sciences and a room with ^19th-century furniture and objects. Upstairs, in the Salle de la Cheminée, concerts, shows, parties and balls are organized. The rest of the rooms house various temporary exhibitions. There's also a modern lapidarium.

The museum has branches in Sarmizegetusa, where you can see the ruins of the former capital of the Dacian state, in Orăştie, where there is a museum of ethnography, as well as in Brad, Baia de Criş and Aurel Vlaicu. This village 35 km east of Deva is named after the Romanian aviation pioneer, whose birthplace can be visited. Well-preserved, it gives an idea of the life of a peasant family in a Transylvanian village at the beginning of the last century. Near the house, the Aurel Vlaicu Memorial Museum exhibits many objects that once belonged to this engineer: his bicycle, motorcycle, aviator's suit, diagrams, plans and model gliders.