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Main places of interest:
- the Brukenthal Museum with its 18th century Austrian Baroque architecture
houses the largest art collection in Transylvania and large displays
on ethnology, natural sciences and history;
- the Folk Civilization Museum is based in a natural park on the outskirts
of Sibiu and accommodates a large collection of old Romanian houses,
and represents the largest open-air museum in Europe;
- the Old Town Hall is an important ensemble of Gothic architecture
constructed from 1470-91;
- the Large Square and the Small Square with Gothic architectural
monuments, the Tower of the Town Hall (13th - 14th centuries), the
old stairways and bridges linking the "upper town" to the
narrow picturesque streets of the "lower town".
- the Orthodox Cathedral, built at the beginning of the 20th century
in Byzantine style after the model of the St. Sophia Cathedral in
Istanbul serves as the residence of the metropolitan of Transylvania;
- the Evanghelical Cathedral, a monument of Gothic architecture constructed
in 1370.
The National Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu is well-known as an institution
of European prestige and one of the greatest Romanian museums. Its'
collections were constituted by baron Samuel von Brukenthal (1721-1803),
governor of Transylvania between 1777-1787. In 1790, three years before
the Louvre was opened, the collections of Samuel von Brukenthal could
be visited. The official opening of the museum took place on the 25th
of February 1817 and was the first museum in Romania.
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