National Museum of Transylvanian History

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The National Museum of Transylvanian History is a museum in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It features a permanent exhibition, as well as temporary exhibitions, the "Tezaur" exhibition, and Pharmacy Historical collection—this last opened in the Hintz House, an historical building in the city's center.

The beginnings of the museum date back in the 19th century (1859) with the foundation of the Society of the Transylvanian Museum, featuring collections of antiquities, botanics, zoology and mineralogy. In 1929 the collection of artefacts was transmited to the Institute of Classical Studies. After repetive movements, determined by the lack of an adequate space, the collection was reopened in 1937 at its current site in Piaţa Muzeului, in the city's center.