Brukenthal National Museum

The National Museum of Sibiu Brukenthal is based in the city's main square, Piata Mare, in the former palace of Samuel von Brukenthal. Here, you can see works of art, and objects of historical value from the late eighteenth century. The collections were shown to the public in 1817. There are six museums in Sibiu; in the art gallery, in the Brukenthal Palace, you can see more than 1,200 paintings and sculptures, works of the great European masters. They date from the fifteenth, to the eighteenth centuries. The palace also houses a library with 300,000 documents, some quite valuable. Other museums