Muzeul Municipal Mediaș

The Mediaș Municipal Museum occupies a historic building in the heart of the old Saxon burgh on the Târnava Mare valley, a town with a long tradition of crafts and trade. Its collections span archaeology, local history, ethnography and art, offering a broad picture of the communities that lived side by side here across the centuries, Saxons, Romanians and Hungarians. Exhibits include archaeological finds from the surrounding area, guild objects, old prints, furniture, folk costumes and medieval armour.

An important part of the holdings relates to the history of the town fortifications and to the role of Mediaș as a centre of Transylvanian political life, where diets and assemblies were once convened. A visit pairs naturally with a walk through the central square and past the fortified Saint Margaret evangelical church, whose leaning tower is one of the town's best known landmarks.