Things to see and do Galaţi

Classic, but a pleasure to visit. This museum, divided into several sections in different buildings around the town, features archaeological remains, both prehistoric and ancient, unearthed in the region. Among them, Neolithic objects from the Criș culture or from the Roman colony of Tirighina-Bărboși. You'll also see Paleolithic objects, coins, stamps, old books, decorative arts or ethnographic items... Cultural events, including book launches, are organized here.

It prides itself on being the country's first museum of contemporary art, inaugurated in 1967 at the foot of a boulder. Its collections include Romanian works of art from the second half of the ^19th and ^20th centuries (Aman, Grigorescu, Baba, Brauner...). But most of the works on display were produced after 1967, by renowned Romanian painters and sculptors such as Horia Bernea. Cultural events are organized on a regular basis (concerts, exhibitions, screenings...). A new headquarters is currently under construction in Rizer Park. It is due for completion by the end of 2025.

Ideal for discovering the (admittedly frozen) fauna of the marshes and the Danube. The museum is located in the Botanical Gardens in the south of the city. This one is also part of the complex, with its various sections: flora of the world, flora of Romania, medicinal flora, rose garden, Japanese garden... The complex also includes an astronomical observatory, a planetarium and an aquarium, presenting the species of the lower Danube, but also many exotic fish.