Look for the grand pale stone facade topped with a steeply pitched red tiled roof and a prominent, dark stone arched portal at its center. This imposing building was the private city palace of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, a governor of Transylvania in the late eighteenth century. He clearly did not believe in traveling light. He began amassing a massive personal collection of European art around seventeen ninety.
By eighteen seventeen, these doors were officially opened to the public, making the Brukenthal National Museum the oldest institution of its kind in modern-day Romania. Take a peek at your screen to see the art galleries hidden inside. The museum houses around one thousand two hundred works from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, featuring Flemish, German, and Italian masters. Today, it is actually a sprawling complex of six different museums spread across the city, though this palace is the beating heart of it all.
If you want to explore the collections, the museum is open from nine A-M to five P-M Wednesday through Sunday. It is quite a legacy for one man to leave behind. Whenever you are ready to keep moving, our next stop awaits.
This welcoming facade belongs to the Brukenthal National Museum, first opened to the public in 1817 as Romania's oldest such institution.Photo: Avishai Teicher, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Cropped & resized.The Brukenthal National Museum stands proudly in Sibiu, a city in Transylvania where Samuel von Brukenthal established his influential collections.Photo: Rsocol, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped & resized.Gaze upon the grand facade of the Brukenthal Palace, home to the museum which officially opened to the public in 1817, making it Romania's oldest.Photo: Mara23, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped & resized.The impressive Brukenthal Palace, constructed between 1778 and 1788, was the private residence of Samuel von Brukenthal, who established his collections here around 1790.Photo: Andrei kokelburg, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 ro. Cropped & resized.See the Brukenthal Palace alongside the 'Blue House,' one of the other buildings that are part of the museum's extended complex of six distinct cultural institutions.Photo: Țetcu Mircea Rareș, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 ro. Cropped & resized.Witness the prominent location of Brukenthal Palace and the Blue House in Sibiu's historic center, part of Baron Brukenthal's original city palace complex.Photo: Ymblanter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped & resized.The Brukenthal Palace and the adjacent Blue House stand as key components of the multi-site Brukenthal National Museum, which now encompasses six different cultural programs.Photo: Leontin l, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped & resized.arrow_back Back to Sibiu Audio Tour: Towers, Traditions & Timeless Treasures
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