Bukovina National Museum

The museum complex has departments of archaeology, history, natural history, art, memorials, observatory, a library (82,000 vols.) and the regional restoration and conservation laboratory. The museum building was built between 1902 and 1903 as the headquarters of the Master’s Office of the Suceava county. After 1919 the building housed the Prefecture, then functioned as the prefect’s residence. After 1944, the City Hall of Suceava was located here. Currently it has a new wing on the north side. From 1967 onwards the County Museum was housed here. The north wing is occupied by the State Archives. The museum was restructured between 1975 and 1980, when the largest part of the upp...er floor was altered in order to shelter the History Department. The museum includes archaeological artefacts from the Palaeolithic to the contemporary age, Dacian finds, artefacts from the archaeological excavations at the Suceava Fortress, pottery collections, lithic and metal artefacts, textiles, coins, documents, rare books, works of art, items illustrating the fields of mineralogy - petrography, palaeontology, botany, malacology, entomology, mammalogy. Exceptional items include: the "throne" from Lipscani (Eneolithic period), the androgynous from Mioveni (the Eneolithic), the gold pendant with almandines from Rotopăneşti (the 5th c.), Byzantine gold coins, the gold ring of Prince Bogdan I, clothes uncovered in the tomb of Prince Peter I Muşat (1375 - 1391), courtly robes (the 17th c.), a.s.o. The museum owns goods listed in the National Cultural Heritage Treasure.

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