Brukenthal Palace
Palatul Brukenthal · Brukenthal-palota
municipiul Sibiu, Sibiu · Piața Mare 4
OpenStreetMap polygon around the building (park, Parcul Muzeului de Istorie Naturală)
Museum; reported hours Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00, closed Mon-Tue (check official site)
Summary
A late Baroque town palace on Piața Mare in Sibiu, built 1778-1788 for Samuel von Brukenthal, governor of Transylvania. It houses the art gallery and library of the Brukenthal National Museum, regarded as the oldest museum in Romania.
Legal status
Nationalised 1946; museum awarded back to the Evangelical Church in 2006; listed monument SB-II-m-A-12094 ↗
History
Baron Samuel von Brukenthal had the palace built between 1778 and 1788 on the site of two older houses, with Franz Burger as master builder according to Hungarian Wikipedia. His winter residence was on the first floor and his growing art collection on the second. The collections were open to visitors from 1790 and the museum officially opened on 25 February 1817. In his will Brukenthal left the building and collection to the Evangelical Church. The state nationalised the museum in 1946 and moved the most valuable paintings to Bucharest. They were returned in 2006, Sibiu's year as European Capital of Culture, when the building was also awarded back to the Evangelical Church. Today it holds the Art Galleries and the Brukenthal Library.
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