Museums and Collections in Romania

Dacian and Roman Civilization Museum

Owner identifier     6942500
Name     Dacian and Roman Civilization Museum
County     Hunedoara
Locality     DEVA
Commune     
Address     B-dul 1 Decembrie 1918 nr. 39
Postal code    2700
Telephone     0254/212.200; 0254/216.750
Fax     0254/212.200
Access     
Time table     Daily 9 - 17; Monday closed
Founded     1882
Director     Pescaru-Rusu, Adriana
Collection(s)     Archaeology (prehistoric, Dacian, Roman, premediaeval, early mediaeval); Roman reliefs from Ulpia Traiana and Micia, mining tools, smith's workshop, medical instruments, bronze pieces. Numismatics, history, fine arts, decorative art, Romanian and foreign antique books, weapons; ethnography (costumes, tools, pottery of Botiza, glass icons; natural sciences (botanics, paleontology, malacology, entomology, etc.); library (40,000 vols.).
Building     Bethlen Castle or "Magna Curia" that houses the museum of Deva is the oldest historic monument building of Deva that has been preserved. In 1582, governor Francisc Geszty raised a house at the foot of the Deva Fortress. In this house lived princes Sigismund Bathory, Basta, Ștefan Bocskay, Gavril Bathory, and from 1613 to 1621 Gabriel Bethlen, the one who raised the Magna Curia in 1621. Some transformations were undertaken in the first half of the 18th century, when it gets a relevantly Baroque look.
History     The museum was reorganized in 1970, 1981 and restructured in 1991.
Category     Muzeu județean
General profile    ARH
Main profile     Arheologie daco-romană, Etnografie, Științele naturii - Zoologie
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E-MAIL address   muzeucdr_deva@smart.ro
Publications     SARGETIA
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