Petrosni Mining Museum

The Petrosni Mining Museum is a museum targeted on coal mining and positioned in the Jiu Valley town of Petrosni, Hunedoara County, Romania. The museum was founded in 1961 and to begin with located in a residence at 1 Ion Creanga Street, on land now occupied by way of the Central Park. A wide variety of modifications were made to the structure, consisting of the removal of the doorways and their frames, the gap being transformed into vaulted ceilings.

The museum's first exhibition become dedicated to the Cuban Revolution and become held within the State Theater hall. Until 1966, the museum become more of a storage facility, as its gallery space became very small. That yr, it moved into the present day headquarters, positioned at 2 Nicolae Bacescu Street. The building, relationship to 1920 and considered a historic monument with the aid of the united states's Culture Ministry, become the primary headquarters of the S. A. R. Petrosni company and originally served as organization housing for personnel. A numismatics exhibition was inaugurated in 1970. The museum underwent widespread renovations among 1996 and 1998.