Museums in Bucharest

Art Nouveau palace housing a museum dedicated to Romania's greatest composer, George Enescu..

Official residence of the Romanian president, partially open as a museum displaying royal furnishings and Brâncovenesc art..

The National Museum of Art of Romania occupies the former Royal Palace on Revolution Square, housing Romanian medieval art, Brâncovenesc icons, and a European gallery with works by Rembrandt, Monet, and El Greco.

The Village Museum (Muzeul Satului) is an open-air ethnographic museum in Herăstrău Park, with over 270 authentic buildings—houses, churches, windmills—brought from Romania's rural regions and reassembled on the shores of Lake Herăstrău.

The National History Museum on Calea Victoriei covers Romania from prehistory to the modern era, with particular strength in Dacian gold, Roman archaeology, and medieval treasures.

The Museum of the Romanian Peasant is an ethnographic museum displaying textiles, ceramics, icons, and reconstructed rural interiors that celebrate Romania's folk culture. It won the European Museum of the Year Award in 1996.

Romania's largest natural history museum with dinosaur skeletons, butterfly collections, and a planetarium..

Nicolae Ceaușescu's private residence, now a museum displaying the dictator's opulent lifestyle..