EVENTS Future Events
Evenimente Speciale
Jazz in the Garden. Sylvain Cossette Quintet
On Saturday, May 16, 2026, starting at 6:00 PM, the Museum of Maps and UCIMR will open the "Jazz in the Garden" season in the museum garden with a concert performed by the Sylvain Cossette Quintet. Participation in the concert is based on registratio [...]
Expoziție Temporară
Greece on the Map: A History in Motion
Greece on the Map: A History in Motion. Cartographic Documents from the Georgios A. Papadopoulos Collection and the Museum of Maps is the title of the temporary exhibition we are offering to the public starting April 30, 2026. From the territory of a [...]
Evenimente Speciale
The World in 1001 Maps. Museum Night at the Maps Museum
For Museum Night, Saturday, 23 May 2026, between 12:00 and 23:00, the Museum of Maps invites you to a creative exploration of its interior spaces and garden, to enjoy maps, contemporary art (data art), music, and nature. Admission is free; last entry [...]
Expoziție Temporară
700 Million Points: The Invisible Cartography of Romania. Miluță Flueraș
The Museum of Maps presents a groundbreaking project in the Romanian cultural landscape: 700 Million Points: The Invisible Cartography of Romania—a visual journey through eight years of geodetic measurements, transformed by artist Miluță Flueraș into [...]
HISTORY History of the MUSEUM
The museum opened to the public in 2003 and is hosted in a beautiful villa built in the 1920's. The main collection belonged to Professor Adrian Năstase’s family and was donated to the Romanian state. At present, the main collection is enriched with other donations of graphic works and maps.
Collection
The patrimony of the museum consists of over 1000 works dating from the 16th to the 20th century. Among them you will find maps of the regions inhabited by Romanians and their ancestors, continents of the world, astronomical maps and city plans. Also, the patrimony of the museum includes graphic works with various subjects: landscapes, portraits, traditional costumes.
The venue
The museum is set in a 1920s building constructed in a style that combines architectural elements of Gothic inspiration – the pointed arches – with those of Mediterranean inspiration - the loggias reminding of 15th century Venetian villas.
Ceilings and stained glass
In order to mark the new use of the building since 2003, the ceilings have been decorated with inspirational insights from mythology and astronomical maps and the stained glass windows were designed with various heraldic and cartographic representations.