The History Museum of Sighisoara
Visiting Hours
15 May -15 Sep: Tue – Fri 9.00 – 18.30, Sat – Sun 10.00 – 17.30
16 Sep – 14 May: Tue – Sun 9.00 – 15.30
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The History Museum of Sighisoara
The History Museum of Sighisoara was founded on June 25th, 1899, by Dr. Josef Bacon and is housed in the Clock Tower, the symbol of the city which, together with the entire citadel, has been an integral part of the UNESCO World Heritage since 1999.
An interesting feature is the vertical setup, this being the only museum in Romania organized in this way, in seven rooms across six floors.
On the first floor one can find the archaeology exhibition, which gathers items from the Bronze Age, the Roman or Dacian era but also objects from the period of migrations such as a fireplace used as an altar from the Bronze Age, representing a solar calendar or a scale model representing Sighișoara back in 1735. The hallway depicts the history of the museum through old images or through the first book of visitors' impressions and presents also details about the life of the museum founder, Dr. Josef Bacon.
On the next floor one finds a pharmacy, with medical equipment of different ages, from the 1st to the 20th century, as well as a small ethnographic exhibition, in which we notice the oil press from the 18th century and an old door dating from 1567.
The third floor reveals an interesting exhibition of urban furniture consisting of a Rococo table, a Biedermeier chest, a Renaissance buffet or a Baroque wardrobe. Also remarkable are the 17th - 19th century finery and the early 19th century clavichord, an instrument used to learn to play piano, fully restored and still functional.
On the fourth floor one finds an exhibition of Saxon ceramics from the 14th - 20th centuries and the medieval guilds of Sighișoara, the most important being the blacksmiths’, carpenters’, butchers’ and shoemakers’ guilds, represented here by individual guild chests with specific insignia and craft items.
The fifth floor houses the clock tower mechanism, which dates from 1906 and which is still functional; it should be mentioned that its first mechanism was certified in 1648. Here you can also admire the clock figurines, small statuettes made of painted linden wood, depicting the patronymic gods of the weekdays and a small exhibition of wall clocks, as well as two other tower clock mechanisms, made of wood and metal, Sighișoara having a longstanding tradition in this area, the first two mechanisms in the country being made by local craftsmen.
On the top floor, the sixth, after passing through a small exhibition dedicated to Hermann Oberth, an astronautics pioneer, who invented the conical nozzle used for rockets propulsion, one reaches the balcony, the best place to admire the beautiful city panorama.
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