The National Museum of the Union — Attraction in Zona Metropolitană Brașov

Excellent museum, but in 2025 almost all the info is in Romanian. If you don’t read Romanian, too bad. Over the last few weeks, I’ve visited a number of museums around the country - this is the first one with almost nothing in English. Which is really a shame as the collection is quite good.

But it’s just not that hard these days to print up short info sheets for different areas in other languages, or add some info boards in English. (Which most non-Romanian visitors need.) Every other museum I’ve visited has tried in different ways to add more English info - here, nothing.

With parts of the museum, you can basically figure out what you’re seeing, but the section on unification - the entire reason I paid to go in - nothing. I had no idea what I was seeing, what a waste of money.

And the employees, as others have noted, behave as if you are bothering them. No greeting when you enter, just a glare as if they want you to leave. At one point on the third floor - and you cannot make stuff up like this - an employee pulled up a video on her phone near me, blasting it out and disturbing several rooms. There were only 3 of us on that floor, but she decided to watch videos loudly on her phone, actually standing next to me. So unprofessional.

Overall, such a great collection and such a disappointing visit. I still spent about two hours there, but I’m a historian, most non-Romanian speakers will just wander through and leave. This seems to be an issue at most of the museums in the Citadel - a lack of English info and staff who are unwelcoming. This is not the way to...

The name is misleading, as this museum contains so much more than just historical information and objects related to the Union.

For 20 lei (€4) per person you get access to 3 full floors packed with history from the neolithic period until the present day. As you would expect, this is a regional museum, so the majority of historical information and artefacts have been discovered on the territory of present day Romania.

There are entire rooms dedicated to medieval and modern Romanian history as well. The top floor usually includes all sorts of temporary exhibitions, some made by children, others by well known artists.

The first floor is wheelchair accessible, as there's a ramp at...

I would have rated a bit lower but it seems they are making efforts in improving the old communist curation and bringing a fresh air to the exhibition

I would still not bother with it as a foreigner because it, sadly, covers nothing about the glorious years under the Habsburgs, rather it emphasizes the Romanian struggle in Transylvania, the short lived union of 1600 and the Roman archeological finds.

It could be interesting for those interested in Roman culture and civilization though the finds are nothing special compared to other such museums.

Admission fee is about 2 euros, you can take pictures and it's good for about an hour depending on your...