Museum sights in Sibiu
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Museum of Traditional Folk Civilisation
Sibiu's top highlight is some 5km from the centre. The large Museum of Traditional Folk Civilisation is a sprawling open-air museum with 120 traditional dwellings, mills and churches brought from around the country. Many are signed in English, with maps showing where they came from; they're situated in a lovely forest around a lake. There's also a nice gift shop and restaurant with creek-side bench seats.
Trolleybus 1 from the train station goes there (get off at the last stop and keep walking for under 1km, or take the hourly Răşinari tram for a couple of stops), though it's an easy and pleasant bike ride there too.
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Pharmaceutical Museum
Housed in nearby Piaţa Mică pharmacy (opened in 1600), the Pharmaceutical Museum is a three-room collection packed with pills and powders, old microscopes and scary medical instruments (such as a 17th-century bone saw). Some exhibits highlight Samuel Hahnemann, a founder of homeopathy in the 1770s (Romania was one of Europe's first countries to legitimise the use of giving small doses of a disease's symptoms in order to fight the disease itself).
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Brukenthal Museum
The Brukenthal Museum is the oldest (and likely) finest art gallery in Romania. Founded in 1817, the museum is in the baroque palace (1785) of Baron Samuel Brukenthal (1721-1803), former Austrian governor. There are excellent collections of 16th and 17th-century Flemish, Italian, Dutch and Austrian paintings, including a giant painting of Sibiu from 1808. The floor filled with folk-art, Romanian art and silverware was under renovation at research time.
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Railway Museum
The so-called Railway Museum is an open-air collection of a couple of dozen old trains right off the tracks. Don't pay any more than the posted around €1.45 ticket price. Alternatively, the friendly depot worker in the hut next door happily explains (in limited English) how trains are managed and maintained; sit with him and chat a while. Get there by walking south from the train station; it's across the tracks, 300m south.
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Natural History Museum
South of Piaţa Mare, Str Cetăţii lines a section of the old city walls, constructed during the 16th century. As in Braşov, different guilds protected each of the 39 towers. Walk north up Str Cetăţii past a couple - the Potters Tower (Turnul Olarilor) and Carpenters Tower (Turnul Dulgherilor) - to reach the Natural History Museum , an average collection of stuffed animals that dates from 1849.
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Franz Binder Museum of World Ethnology
Named for a 19th-century collector from Sibiu, the great Franz Binder Museum of World Ethnology has an unexpectedly rich collection of North and Central African pieces (including a 2000-year-old mummy), picked up by Franz during his 10-year stay in Egypt and Sudan. Temporary exhibits include displays of Inuit art from Nunavut, Canada.
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City History Museum
Just west of Piaţa Mare is the lovely Primăriă Municipiului (1470), now the City History Museum, which was closed at research time but planned to re-open by mid-2007.
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Museum of Hunting Arms & Trophies
A 15-minute walk southwest of the city centre lies the Museum of Hunting Arms & Trophies.
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City History Museum
Just west of Piaţa Mare is the lovely Primăriă Municipiului (1470), now the City History Museum, which was closed at research time but planned to re-open by mid-2007.
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