National Museum of Romanian Literature — Attraction in Bucharest

Located down a back street this museum is a loving tribute to Romania's love of literature. The museum is across three floors and a basement. The building itself has lovely ornate ceilings-look up! The exhibits include photographs manuscripts sculptures and inventions. There are some very limited sections in English. Most exhibits are explained in Romanian so you may want to load a translation app on your phone. Its clearly a vibrant space with a theatre group rehearsing in the galleries when we visited. As with many places in Romania there were plenty of toilets but stairs were...

Amazing way to display in this museum, considering Romanian average museums. They make literature interesting by having interactive panels, showing photos from the writers' time and objects that belonged to them and handwriting. Huge space! I can only regret that most personalities were simplified, no additional info on them (some made the pact with the communist regime, some were persecuted and even...

I went on a Friday morning with my 13 year old daughter and we spent a wonderful 2 hours there. We were the only visitors it seemed. If you are a lover of Romanian literature you will enjoy the quirky items belonging to great writers or their hand written works. We bought tickets online a few days before but that was not necessary. Get the audio guide. It will improve...