Museums and galleries
Cultural Palace - Târgu Mureș
Built between 1911 and 1913 at the initiative of the visionary mayor Bernády György, the Palace of Culture is considered by many specialists to be one of the most beautiful achievements of the Secession style in Transylvania. The building was meant to host the music school, the town’s library, a theatre and an art gallery. The mayor insisted that the building be constructed by the same architect couple, Komor Marcell and Jakab Dezső, who had also built the imposing building of the Town Hall, a few years before. The palace is decorated on the outside with bas reliefs, frescoes, mosaics and valuable stained glass windows, specific to the Secession style.Inside you can visit the Great Hall, Hall and Stairs, Small Hall, Hall of Mirrors, Bernády Memorial Room, Dandea Memorial Room, Secession Hall, Permanent Gallery of Modern Romanian Art, Permanent Gallery of Hungarian Classical Art, and temporary exhibitions.Opening HoursSchedule: Tuesday – Friday: 9.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.Saturday – Sunday 9.00 a.m. – 2.30 p.mMonday: closedThe closing time of the ticket office: 3.30 p.m./ 2.00 p.mThe Museum is closed on Public Holidays.Galleries may occasionally be closed for maintenance or long-term refurbishment.
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Museum of Ethnography and Popular Art - Târgu Mureș
The museum is located in the Toldalagi Palace, one of the most important monuments of the city dating from the 18th century. The museum's heritage contains valuable ethnographic collections, from popular costumes and interior textiles to wooden objects, ceramics, metal and bone objects, as well as religious cult objects, wooden and glass icons or contemporary art creations. The first acquisitions of ethnographic objects from the collections of the ethnography section were made by Aurel Filimon at the beginning of the 20th century. The enrichment of the museum’s patrimony was continued through other acquisition campaigns that aimed at completing the ethnographic collections, in order to represent all the ethnographic areas of Mureş county (the Transylvanian Plain, the Târnava valleys, Gurghiu Valley, Upper Mureş Valley, Niraj Valley). Ethnographic exhibitions, with various themes are an expression of interculturality, of coexistence between different nationalities and ethnic groups in this region. Opening HoursTuesday – Friday: 9.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.Saturday: 9.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.mSunday: 9.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.mMonday: closedThe Museum is closed on Public Holidays.
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Teleki Library - Târgu Mureș
“Entering the library I was shaken by amazement” – wrote Ferenc Kazinczy in 1816 when he visited the Teleki Library. The basic collection of today’s Teleki-Bolyai Library was made available for the general public by Count Samuel Teleki, Chancellor of Transylvania, on 18th October 1802. It is really difficult to prioritise the treasures of the Teleki Library, its shelves and showcases boast with incunabula, about two thousand Hungarian books, famous Bibles, the basic works of 16th – 18th century Europe’s scholarship, 17th century hand-painted atlases, countless volumes published by the most famous European publishing houses. After the Second World War this collection was enriched with the 80,000 volumes of the former Calvinist College, as well as with other fragmentary confessional and aristocratic collections. The Library’s oldest document is a 14th century parchment codex, known as the Koncz Codex that on some of its pages bares another handwriting which is the sixth oldest Hungarian language monument from the first quarter of the 15th century, known as the Lines and Glosses of Tîrgu Mureș. The most representative volumes are on display in the museum located in the main hall, while the researchers, students and local historians can work with almost any volume of the library in the upstairs reading room. Today the former reading room houses the temporary exhibitions and can be visited along with the Bolyai Museum. The latter presents objects and documents connected to the two mathematicians; alongside Farkas’ main work, the Tentamen (in which his son’s famous non-Euclidean geometry is included as an appendix), the visitors can catch a glimpse of Farkas’ study and on a separating screen read selected copies of the 20,000 manuscripts of the two. During recent years the Teleki-Bolyai Library has played an active role in the life of the local community. The activities for kids are destined for school children, while the thematic, cultural and book-related discussions proved to be significantly popular among the general public.Opening HoursExhibitions:Tuesday-Friday: 10:00 - 18:00Saturday: 10:00-16:00Reading Room:Tuesday-Friday: 10:00 - 18:00Last admission half an hour before closing time!
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The Bolyai Museum - Târgu Mureș
The Bolyai Museum, which was founded in 1937, was originally set up in one of the chambers at the Library of the Calvinist College in Targu-Mures, showcasing the surviving personal items belonging to the two ingenious mathematicians. In 1955, the memorial museum and the library of the college were arranged in the right wing of the Teleki Library building, and a few years later, the Bolyai memorial room was moved to the ground floor, where it can be found today. In addition to their personal items, such as Bolyai Farkas' chess set, János Bolyai's geometric compases set, and a unique stove made by Bolyai Farkas, you can also see some pieces of their personal furniture, or the pseudosphere wooden model, representing the non-Euclidean geometry.Address: Teleki Library, Bolyai str. no. 17.Visiting program: Tuesday - Friday: 10 - 17:30
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Israel corner Museum - Târgu Mureș
The small museum is located inside a house, next to the synagogue in Tg. Mureș. Here visitors can learn more about the history of the city and the history of the Jewish community. The museum's collection includes Torah scrolls, books, rabbi’s clothing, family photo albums, furniture, portraits of celebrities from Târgu Mureș. The Synagogue is open for visitors daily from from Monday to Friday between 9-12.30. Visits must be announced at least one day prior to the arrival, by phone, mentioning the size of the group and the time of the arrival, on the following numbers: 0040 74500847, or 0040 265 261 810. Address: Aurel Filimon str., 21
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The Museum Of Natural Sciences - Târgu Mureș
The Museum of Natural Sciences in Târgu-Mureș can be found in the former building of the Museum of Industrial Szekler Art, built between 1890 and 1893.The building was designed by architect Kiss István in neoclassical style, combining elements of the Italian Renaissance and Greek elements, with statues and stained-glass windows, and has housed the Museum of Natural Sciences since 1952, when the first biologist, Kónya István, was assigned here. Today, the Museum of Natural Sciences holds valuable collections of paleontology, mineralogy-petrology, lower and upper plants, invertebrate and vertebrate animals, totaling about 60 000 items. The building is also accessible for the disabled.The main exhibition will be open from 14 December 2023 in the Department of Natural Sciences, from Tuesday to Friday from 9.00 to 16.00, on Saturday from 9.00 to 14.00 and on Sunday from 9.00 to 13.00. Closed on Mondays.Admission: 15 lei for adults, 7 lei for pensioners and 3 lei for studentsAddress: Str. Horea no. 24.
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The Archaeological and History Museum - Târgu Mureș
The museum in the fortress displays aspects of the region's history and promotes its cultural heritage. In addition to the most important archaeological relics and finds of the county, the exhibition offer is mainly in the field of material culture and built heritage, also promoting aspects of modern and contemporary history of the area.The Habsburg Army Officers’ buildingThe building consists of two 17th-century houses connected by a central wing. The western wing of the building housed the town hall in the 17th century. The present U-shaped plan was acquired in the 18th century due to Habsburg interventions, while the final appearance was accomplished after the building's rehabilitation in 1877. The Officers' Lounge on the first floor of the building dates from this period, where the original mural painting has been preserved (restored in 2010). The building was renovated between 2008-2014 by the Mures County Museum.The museum can be found inside the medieval citadel and it is promoting the history of the region and its cultural patrimony. It presents to the public the archeological patrimony of the area. Opening HoursTuesday – Friday: 09.00–17.00 Saturday – Sunday: 10.00–14.00 Monday: closed The Museum is closed on Public Holidays. Address: the citadel of Târgu Mureș, Avram Iancu str. no. 2
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