MUSEUM OF ART

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.