The best museums Tulcea

The Tulcea Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art, which occupies an emblematic building in the city, reopened its doors in 2023 after renovation work. It features a collection of over 8,000 costumes and various objects that take us back to the multicultural Tulcea of yesteryear, and allow us to discover the folklore of the various local minorities. The museum also manages the house of the writer Panait Cerna, born in the commune of Cerna, the Panaghia house in the town of Babadag and the museum of the traditional village of Dobroudja, located in Enisala.

Situated below the monument to the Heroes of Independence, you can admire a fine collection of ancient ceramics and coins from Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Part of the exhibition focuses on the adoption of Christianity by the region's inhabitants and religious persecution in the first centuries AD. Ruins of the ancient fortress of Aegyssus, which dates back to antiquity, can be seen next to the museum.

This obelisk planted on top of the citadel hill, east of the city, was erected in 1900 by the sculptors Vasilescu and Bălăcescu, as a tribute to the dead of the War of Independence of 1877-1878. All the way up, after climbing a good flight of stairs, you will enjoy a 360-degree view of the river, the city and the surrounding fields. It is also on this hill that the giant letters forming the name of the city were erected.

This beautiful neoclassical building was built in 1870 by Ismail Pasha, then Ottoman governor of Tulcea. Recently modernized, it houses beautiful collections of paintings, engravings and sculptures. There are contemporary works by Pallady, Aman, Baba, Brauner or Grigorescu. One room is dedicated to paintings depicting Tulcea and Dobrogea. You will also be able to admire Russian and Lipovene icons, as well as beautiful pieces of European and Oriental decorative arts: jewellery, furniture, carpets, Persian earthenware, dresses sewn with gold thread..