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The Museum of Cluj-Napoca or National Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, is an art museum housed in an important eighteenth-century Baroque building, the Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace, designed by German architect Johann Eberhard Blaumann. The museum possesses a very valuable collection of Romanian and European art: paintings, graphics and decorative art ranging from the Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth.
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Palatul Bánffy
Built between 1774 and 1775, it houses the National Art Museum
Strada Iuliu Maniu
Casa Hintz
It was the first pharmacy in Cluj. Nowadays it houses the Pharmaceutical museum.
Muzeul Farmaciei
Highlights of the museum include Mummy powder used as an expensive cure for all diseases, also the elixir of Love, dentifrice powders and a medieval laboratory although little evidence exists that the room was used as a laboratory. A free audio guide is available through the mobile application "izi.Travel".
Biserica Sfântul Mihail
This Gothic architecture piece is one of the most valuable in Transylvania. Its murals date from the 15th century, and the 50 m neo-Gothic tower was built in 1860.
Statuia lui Matei Corvin
The statue is often climbed by tourists, although officially this practise is not allowed.