The Village Museum - traditional household

MINA Pop-Up Galați este un proiect co-finantat de Primăria Municipiului Galați și găzduit de Shopping City Galați. Spațiul temporar include un cort de 450 mp cu proiecții 360°, instalat în parcarea centrului comercial (Bd. George Coșbuc nr. 251) și va fi deschis publicului între 5 iulie și 2 noiembrie 2025. MINA – Museum of Immersive New Art este primul muzeu imersiv din România, un concept inovator care aduce împreună arta și tehnologia. Cu locații permanente în București și Cluj și o ediție Pop-Up itinerantă, MINA promovează educația vizuală și exprimarea artistică prin mijloace multimedia și interactive. Fiecare spectacol este o experiență unică, care deschide noi frontiere în educație, artă și tehnologie, adresându-se publicului de toate vârstele. Program de vizitare MINA Pop-Up Galați din 5 iulie 2025 Luni – Vineri: 11:00 – 21:00 Sâmbătă: 10:00 - 21:00 Duminică: 10:00 – 20:00 *Accesul se face cu cel puțin o oră înainte de închidere. Ultimele două intervale ale zilei sunt recomandate adulților și copiilor peste 10 ani. *Programul poate suferi modificări. Programul complet și bilete:  www.minamuseum.com/minapopup

The Planetarium and The Astronomical Observer are the places where Astronomy is home. The Astronomical Observer is located on the second floor of the Museum of Natural Scences from Galați, next to the Planetarium. It is the biggest and the most modern public observer in Romania, being the first public observer with a tractable roof in the country. You will have the chance to watch the sky using the largest telescope designated to the Romanian public. Here you will also be able to see live broadcasts of images of the moon and other celestial bodies. In case of astronomical events it also provides live transmissions of the Sun and Moon eclipses. Children under 7 years of age are not allowed at the Astronomical Observatory. The projections from the Planetarium are broadcast for groups of at least 5 interested people. Children under 3 years are restricted. Tickets can be purchased from the shop located on the ground floor of the museum. Text and photo sources: https://astronomiegalati.wordpress.com/; http://www.cmsngl.ro/; https://www.facebook.com/AstroGalati/?ref=page_internal

The Museum of the Fishing Area is situated in Gârboavele Forest, in the same area as the Village Museum, and displays a set of objectives comprising two traditional households, a fishery, a pond, a pavilion for cultural outdoor activities and fences. The museum ethnographically reconstructs the type of house specific to the Ethnographic Zone of Northern part of Covurlui River and the Galați Ethnographic Zone, the two ethnographic areas situated in the eastern part of Galați County. For the fishing area, the fishery represents the place designed for receiving, sorting and marketing the fish, as well as the storage of fishing gear. The fishery is in the fishing area and is made of adobe, on a wooden structure, covered with reed. The pond is filled with fish species area-specific. The vegetation water-specific: willow, reed, rush, displays the area and completes the objective aesthetically. Text, photo and video sources: https://www.ccdj.ro/; https://www.youtube.com/ccdj galati; https://exploremag.ro/muzeul-zonei-pescaresti/

The building of the Galati Collection House, built in 1900, was inserted into the Galați residents' consciousness under the name Ținc Pharmacy (listed in the Historical Monuments List at GL-II-mB-03045), and imposed itself in the architectural landscape of the city of Galaţi - specific to the beginning of the century XX -by defining stylistic elements its initial destination was to be a pharmacy and a residence. The farmacy operated at the groud floor of the building, while the upper floors were the pharmacist's residence and space allocated to the service staff. The building operated as a pharmacy until 1989, when a technical expertise disposed of the evacuation for safety reasons. The restoration of the building takes place between 1994 and 2006, through the financing of the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs and the Council of Galați County. The museum hosts indoor exibitions and memorial collections, like the "George Maksay" collections - supplier of the Royal Court and luxury photographer of Galați, and "Smaranda Brăescu" - the first parachutist woman with a brevet from Romania, born in Buciumeni commune from nowdays Galațicounty. Text and photo sources: http://www.migl.ro/; https://ro.wikipedia.org/

The Botanical Garden from Galați was founded in 1990 as a department of the Natural Sciences Museum Complex "Răsvan Angheluţă". The Botanical Garden Patrimony consists of over 260,000 specimens of trees, shrubs and flowers. The garden has an area of 18 ha and it is divided into six sectors: ornamental, greenhouse, useful plants, rosarium, flora and vegetation of Romania (5.3 ha), exotic flora. In 2014 an unusual area was opened for the public - the Sensory Garden, unique in Romania. On an area of 750 square meters were built five vertical gardens, five alveoli with aromatic and useful plants, as well as a therapeutic alley –on which the public can walk ... barefoot. The alley has several surfaces: gravel, crushed stone, river stone, hay, cones, brick, sand, tree bark, and wood logs. The barefooted tourist will walk on these surfaces, experiencing a real relaxation therapy by simply touching the elements with their barefeet. The therapy will continue on the ten wooden outdoor chairs (lounge chair), where the nature lovers can sit down and listen to the nature or smell the aromatic plants in the alveoli at the entrance to the garden. Text and photo sources: https://locuridinromania.ro; https://adevarul.ro; https://www.facebook.com/141371159286702/

Manorial house, that later - in 1939 -became a museum, precisely because it belonged to the Cuza family and because it was inhabited by the Chief Magistrate of Galati, the future Lord of the Little Union in 1859.

The building situated in an ensemble including the statue of ruler Alexandru loan Cuza and the Public Garde is now a museum that impresses with the sober elegance of the building and the religious relics present in the exhibition halls. As an episcopal cathedral, the palace was inaugurated in the presenceof the royal family and the governors of the time.

The Visual Arts Museum form Galați is the first museum of contemporary art from Romania and was opened in 1967. The works made between 1967-2012 are the most important part of heritage and permanent exhibitions of the museum. Famous personalities of contemporary Romanian painting and sculpture, represented by creations of recognized national and international value, are present on the museum's walls: Horia Bernea, Ion Salisteanu, Ion Alin Gheorghiu, Marin Gherasim, Teodor Moraru, Octav Grigorescu, Georgeta Naparus, Paula Ribariu, Stefan Caltia, Gheorghe Anghel, Ion Irimescu, Vida Geza, George Apostu, Ovidiu Maitec, Napoleon Tiron. The museum has a dynamic structure by organizing exhibitions, micro-exhibitions, various events with audience (concerts, debates, art exhibitions, art history lessons, movie projections, etc.), symposiums, creation camps and other programs that promote the most significant orientations from the Romanian contemporary art in the country and abroad.

The two sections of the museum are placed on one side of this Danubian Agora: old history and lapidarium, with relics and othertestimonies about the millennial civilization of the place.