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Previous | Home | NextThe Brukenthal Museum was the old home of Samuel von Brukenthal (1721-1803), the governor of Transylvania 1774-1787 and adviser to Maria Theresa. Brukenthal was visited by Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822), a Cambridge University mineralogist and explorer. Clarke made extensive travels ranging from Russia to Africa to Sweden and recorded his experiences in an eleven-volume series. His trip to Romania was in 1802, which he described as "the only country in the whole world where tellurium has yet been discovered. . . ." {LINK: to SACARAMB (Nagyag)} Brukenthal had an impressive collection of paintings and other art objects, mineralogical specimens, an extensive library, and other miscellaneous artifacts. Today the Brukenthal Museum has several branches, including the Pharmaceutial Museum and the Museum of Natural History (see below for both of these). The Brukenthal Museum was open to the public in 1817.
