Museums in Brașov: Opening Hours, Tickets and Which to Visit

The museums at a glance

Museum	Address	Open	Closed	Adult ticket
History Museum (Casa Sfatului)	Piața Sfatului 30	Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00	Mon	12 lei
Weavers’ Bastion	Str. George Coșbuc 9	Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00	Mon	10 lei
Museum of Urban Civilization	Piața Sfatului 15	Wed–Sun 09:00–17:00 (Oct–Apr), 10:00–18:00 (May–Sep)	Mon, Tue, public holidays	20 lei
Casa Mureșenilor	Piața Sfatului 25	Mon 11:00–17:00, Tue–Sat 09:00–17:00	Sun	8 lei
Ethnography Museum	Bd. Eroilor 21A	Wed–Sun 09:00–17:00 (Oct–Apr), 10:00–18:00 (May–Sep)	Mon, Tue, public holidays	12 lei
Art Museum	Bd. Eroilor 21	Tue–Sun 09:00–17:00 (Oct–Mar), 10:00–18:00 (Apr–Sep)	Mon, public holidays	12 lei
First Romanian School	Piața Unirii 2–3	Wed–Fri 10:00–17:00, Sat 11:00–17:00, Sun 12:00–17:00	Mon, Tue	20 lei

Prices were checked on 17 October 2026. Sources and reduced prices are in each section below.

Plan around the closing days. Most museums are closed on Mondays. The Ethnography Museum and the Museum of Urban Civilization are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. The First Romanian School is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays and needs booking for individual visits. Casa Mureșenilor is closed on Sundays. The Brașov Visit Ticket covers 12 sites, including the Black Church, for 90 days.

Which ones to choose

• One hour, first visit: the History Museum in the Council House, right in the main square, for the overview of the town’s past, then the Weavers’ Bastion for the model of the medieval city.
• How people lived: the Museum of Urban Civilization, a merchant house furnished floor by floor from the 17th to the 19th century. At 20 lei it is the most expensive of the county-run museums.
• Romanian history and language: the First Romanian School in Șchei. Book ahead.
• Art: the Art Museum on Bulevardul Eroilor, with Romanian painting from Grigorescu to Tonitza. The Ethnography Museum is next door, so the two make an easy pair from Wednesday to Sunday.
• Rainy day: all of the above work; see also our rainy-day guide to Brașov. The Black Church, which most visitors see anyway, is covered in our Black Church guide.

History Museum (Casa Sfatului)

Piața Sfatului 30 · Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00 (last tickets 17:30), closed Mondays · adults 12 lei, pensioners 5 lei, pre-school children, pupils and students 2 lei, free for visitors with a disability

The Brașov County History Museum has used the old town hall in the middle of Piața Sfatului since 1950, for its permanent exhibition and temporary shows. The building itself is part of the visit: a council room above the furriers’ guild vault is recorded in 1420, the tower was built in 1521–1528, and the present roof dates from 1909–1910. Allow 45 minutes to an hour. Hours and prices are from the museum’s contact page.

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Weavers’ Bastion and the Brașov/3M exhibition

Strada George Coșbuc 9 · Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00, closed Mondays · adults 10 lei, pensioners 5 lei, pre-school children, pupils and students 2 lei

The bastion on the walls below Tâmpa was defended and maintained by the linen weavers’ guild. It was built in two stages, in 1421–1436 and 1570–1573, and became a museum after its restoration in 1910. It is run by the History Museum, at the same hours.

Its permanent exhibition, Brașovul/3M, is built around the scale model of medieval Brașov made in 1896 by the Saxon drawing teacher Johann Hermann, often described as the first museum display in the city’s history. The model shows the walled town with its gates and bastions, Catherine’s Gate included, and is now presented with a multimedia installation. It is the best way to understand the walls before you walk them; our route past Brașov’s five landmark buildings starts ten minutes away.

Museum of Urban Civilization

Piața Sfatului 15 · Wed–Sun 09:00–17:00 (1 Oct–30 Apr), 10:00–18:00 (1 May–30 Sep), closed Mondays, Tuesdays and public holidays · adults 20 lei, pensioners 10 lei, children, pupils and students 5 lei

This branch of the Brașov Ethnography Museum fills a merchant house on the main square that is recorded archaeologically from the 13th–14th centuries and was rebuilt in 1566. It opened as a museum in 2009, and it is arranged by century from the bottom up: the 17th century in the cellar, the 18th on the ground floor, the 19th on the first floor, and temporary exhibitions in the attic.

On the way up you pass a goods cellar, a shop, a spice room, a Saxon patrician salon, a child’s room and craft workshops for embroidery, hat-making and early photography. Prices and hours are from the museum’s page.

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Casa Mureșenilor

Piața Sfatului 25 · Mon 11:00–17:00, Tue–Sat 09:00–17:00 (last entry 16:30), closed Sundays · adults 8 lei, pensioners 4 lei, pupils and students 2 lei

The museum of the Mureșianu family opened in 1968, after the family’s descendants donated the house and its contents. It occupies one of the oldest Gothic buildings on the square, behind a Renaissance-style façade, and shows the family’s furniture, paintings and sculpture; its archive holds more than 25,000 documents, including letters from Romanian political and cultural figures. It also runs concerts and temporary exhibitions.

Prices are from the museum’s website; hours are from its ticket page. It is the one museum on this list that is open on Mondays and closed on Sundays.

Ethnography Museum

Bulevardul Eroilor 21A · Wed–Sun 09:00–17:00 (1 Oct–30 Apr), 10:00–18:00 (1 May–30 Sep), closed Mondays, Tuesdays and public holidays · adults 12 lei, pensioners 6 lei, children, pupils and students 3 lei

The county’s ethnography museum covers village life in south-eastern Transylvania: the Bran area, Rupea, Țara Oltului, the Hârtibaciu valley and Țara Bârsei around Brașov. Its central permanent exhibition is about weaving, the craft common to all these areas, and how woven textiles were used in the home and in folk costume, with the tools that made them.

Prices and hours are from the museum’s page. It is about seven minutes’ walk north of Piața Sfatului, next door to the Art Museum.

Art Museum

Bulevardul Eroilor 21 · Tue–Sun 09:00–17:00 from 1 October to 31 March (last entry 16:30), 10:00–18:00 in summer (last entry 17:30), closed Mondays and public holidays · adults 12 lei, pensioners 6 lei, pre-school children, pupils and students 3 lei, free under 5

The permanent Romanian Art Gallery brings together painting and sculpture from the Romanian lands: 18th- and 19th-century Transylvanian painting, then modern Romanian art up to the post-war period, with works by Nicolae Grigorescu, Ștefan Luchian and Nicolae Tonitza and by artists who worked in Brașov.

A temporary-exhibitions-only ticket costs 8 lei. Personal photography is free. Guided tours for groups of up to 30 cost 60 lei in Romanian or 120 lei in English or German for an hour, booked at least two days ahead. All details are from the museum’s visitor page.

First Romanian School

Piața Unirii 2–3, Șchei · Wed–Fri 10:00–17:00, Sat 11:00–17:00, Sun 12:00–17:00, closed Mondays and Tuesdays; on church holidays it opens after the service · full ticket 20 lei, pupils and students 10 lei (22 and 11 lei online, including the payment fee) · individual visitors must book ahead

The museum stands in the courtyard of St Nicholas Church in Șchei, the old Romanian quarter beyond Catherine’s Gate, about 15 minutes’ walk from Piața Sfatului. The museum describes St Nicholas Church and its school as the crucible of Romanian identity in Brașov. The collection includes some of the earliest books printed in Romanian, the first Romanian grammars, a collection of old Romanian Bibles and the school’s historical archive, and guided tours are offered.

Booking: the ticket page says a visit needs a ticket plus either a group of at least 10 people or an appointment for an individual visit. Book by phone using the numbers on the museum’s ticket page, where the hours come from. Prices are from the museum’s website; tickets bought on the ticket page cost 22 lei because they include a payment fee. At 20 lei it shares the highest price here with the Museum of Urban Civilization.

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Combined ticket: the Brașov Visit Ticket

The museums run by Brașov County, plus the First Romanian School and the Black Church, sell a joint ticket online.

• Price: adults 57.76 lei, pensioners and students 42.01 lei, pupils 21.01 lei (online prices, including the payment fee)
• Valid: 90 days from purchase, one visit to each site
• Sites (12): Black Church, First Romanian School, Art Museum, Ethnography Museum, Museum of Urban Civilization, History Museum, Weavers’ Bastion, Olimpia museum of sport and mountain tourism, Casa Mureșenilor, the Ștefan Baciu memorial house in Brașov, and the ethnographic museums in Săcele and Rupea. The Săcele museum is temporarily closed for renovation.
• Is it worth it? Yes if you visit three or more of the bigger ones: the Black Church (30 lei), the Museum of Urban Civilization (20 lei) and the History Museum (12 lei) already cost 62 lei separately. For one or two museums, buy single tickets.

Prices and the site list are from the Brașov Visit Ticket page on booktes.com and the Black Church ticket page.

Tips

• Mondays: only Casa Mureșenilor and the Black Church (from 12:00) are open. The Black Church is closed on Mondays 2, 9 and 16 November 2026 for cleaning. Tuesdays: add the History Museum, the Weavers’ Bastion and the Art Museum. Wednesday to Saturday everything is open.
• Sundays: Casa Mureșenilor is closed; the First Romanian School opens at 12:00.
• Check the season: the Ethnography and Urban Civilization museums switch to winter hours (09:00–17:00) on 1 October, the Art Museum on 1 October, and the Black Church on 16 October.
• Pair by location: the History Museum, Urban Civilization and Casa Mureșenilor are all on Piața Sfatului; the Art and Ethnography museums are side by side on Bulevardul Eroilor; the Weavers’ Bastion is on the way to the promenade under Tâmpa.

For everything else in the city, start with our guide to things to do in Brașov.

FAQ

Are Brașov’s museums open on Mondays?

Mostly not. On Mondays only Casa Mureșenilor, from 11:00 to 17:00, and the Black Church, from 12:00, are open among the sites in this guide. The Black Church is closed on 2, 9 and 16 November 2026.

Is there a museum pass in Brașov?

Yes, the Brașov Visit Ticket: 57.76 lei for adults, valid 90 days for one visit to each of 12 sites, including the Black Church and the main museums.

How much do museums cost in Brașov?

Between 8 lei at Casa Mureșenilor and 20 lei at the Museum of Urban Civilization and the First Romanian School for an adult in October 2026, with reductions for pensioners, students and children. The Black Church costs 30 lei.

Do I need to book the First Romanian School?

Yes, if you’re not in a group of 10 or more. The museum asks individual visitors to book in advance.

Which museum is best for a rainy afternoon?

The Museum of Urban Civilization on Piața Sfatului: four floors of period rooms, open Wednesday to Sunday.

Sources

• History Museum and Weavers’ Bastion hours and prices: brasovistorie.ro, Contact, checked 10 October 2026
• Weavers’ Bastion history: brasovistorie.ro, Bastionul Țesătorilor; the Brașovul/3M exhibition: Zile și Nopți listing
• Museum of Urban Civilization: etnobrasov.ro/mcu, checked 10 October 2026
• Ethnography Museum: etnobrasov.ro/muzeul-brasov, checked 10 October 2026
• Art Museum: muzeulartabv.ro, visiting, checked 10 October 2026
• Casa Mureșenilor: muzeulmuresenilor.ro (prices) and ticket page (hours), checked 10 October 2026
• First Romanian School: ticket page on booktes.com, checked 10 October 2026
• Brașov Visit Ticket: booktes.com, checked 10 October 2026