HISTORICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM

The museum was created in 1960, during the Soviet period and has the peculiarity of having changed location three times during the different periods of history. On October 14, 1960, the museum temporarily moved to a small street in the centre, Strada Dostoievski. Then, in the logic of the anti-religious persecutions, on March 10, 1961, the museum was moved to the Constantine Cathedral şi Elena. In 1990 the museum was moved to its present location in what was once the high school of the city's Jewish community. The permanent exhibition shows a varied collection of archaeological remains, Roman and Byzantine coins, documents such as ancient manuscripts, weapons (including Stefan cel Mare's sword) and ethnographic elements such as traditional costumes. In addition to this permanent exhibition, the municipality tries to host temporary themed exhibitions (about ten a year), such as the one in May 2009, which showed the weapons and objects indispensable to any soldier, military clothing, field telephones, as well as propaganda elements aimed at reinforcing the Soviet concept of the "Great Patriotic War".

The museum's collection consists of 34,027 pieces and on average 27,300 visitors per year. For the premises, the museum officials had the good idea to create various activities such as learning workshops, cycles of lectures on history.