The best museums Baia Mare

It occupies the former summer theatre, an elegant white building on the Hill of Flowers, not far from the centre. The exhibition features carpets, traditional costumes (including beautiful wedding dresses) and other popular handicrafts. She focuses particularly on woodworking, a great specialty of the region. A section is dedicated to ceramics, another important local know-how. A good introduction to the richness of the folklore of Maramureș.

Next to the Ethnographic Museum, set on the picturesque Flower Hill, the Village Museum (muzeul Satului) presents, in the open air, interesting traditional houses of the region, with reconstructed interiors and exteriors: barns, pigsties, farm installations and farm machinery of the time. You will also see crosses, gates and a wooden church of 1630, brought back from the village from Chechiș. However, although this rural reconstruction is vast and exciting, it does not replace a country holiday.

Housed in an ^18th-century building close to the old town center, it exhibits over 250 works by the Nagybánya School (the Hungarian name for Baia Mare), a colony of painters founded by Simon Hollósy in 1896, at a time when the town was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Influenced by Impressionism, this movement, highly regarded in Europe, was characterized in particular by plein-air painting. The museum's collections also include fine works of Romanian and European art, presented in temporary exhibitions.

It occupies the former Mint, built in the ^18th century and now the headquarters of the Mining Department. One of its sections traces the long history of mining in Baia Mare. You can also see coins, weapons, photos, various documents and ancient objects, as well as a surprising collection of some 300 watches. On the archaeological side, a permanent exhibition is dedicated to "Bronze Age Treasures from Northern Transylvania".