Museum of Oltenia

The museum was established in 1915 as an ethnography and antiquities museum. In 1928 it turned into the Regional Museum of Oltenia. The building is a historic and architectonic monument (1906). The museum has departments of history and archaeology, ethnography and natural sciences. The exhibits include a history collection: mediaeval weapons, flags, period costumes, mediaeval art; archaeology artefacts: pottery, weapons, tools, Bronze Age deposit found at Ghidici, Roman and mediaeval lapidarium etc.; coins, medals and seals; ethnography and natural sciences items; rare books, facsimiles, a library (12,000 books). The museum owns goods listed in the National Cultural Heritage Treasure.