The adjacent image is a photograph taken by the famous Cluj photographer Ferenc Veress, a city winter landscape from the end of the 19th century, in which the tower of the Franciscan Church in the current Museum Square and the building where the National Museum of History of Transylvania. I mean us.
The building was not built to be a museum, originally it was a private house, built at the beginning of the 19th century by Major Dániel Petrichevich-Horváth. A great lover of theater and culture, he hoped to transform it into a center that would coagulate the cultural life of Cluj.
In 1933, the Museum of Antiquities was opened, next to the Institute of Classical Studies, and in 1963, the current history museum was officially born.
Today, even if it is a space dedicated to history, we want to maintain at least part of the original purpose of the building and for it to be a center where, slowly, the cultural life of the city will (re)coagulate, or at least part from her. You can learn more about Cluj and its history if you visit us.