Lower Ground – The History of the Memorial
Two refurbished rooms on the lower ground floor are dedicated to the history of the Memorial, of the institution that … Read More
Sighet Museum: Room 87 bis – Corneliu Coposu
In front of the Iuliu Maniu room there is a group of photographs on the subject of Corneliu Coposu, one of … Read More
Sighet Museum: Room 70 – The Memory of Manuscripts
In the vocabulary of the communist justice system, “hostile written texts” were among the most serious corpora delicti. To be discovered … Read More
Sighet Museum: Room 6 – The Romania of the prisons
Overall, more than two million people were persecuted politically using coercive methods in the People’s Republic of Romania. Six hundred thousand … Read More
The Union Generation exterminated in the Gulag
The exhibition presents the leading lights of the Great Union of 1918, from Alba Iulia, Kishinev and Czernowitz, who were, almost … Read More
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”
“Şi veţi cunoaşte adevărul şi adevărul vă va face liberi” Table: translation in thirty-three languages of the Gospel according to St … Read More
Gallery of former political prisoners and deportees
Gallery of former political prisoners and deportees, covered with thousands of portraits
Sighet Museum: Rooms 84-87 – Iuliu Maniu, a father of democracy
On the passage to the left of the access corridor, above the Brătianu rooms, a number of rooms, subdivided by … Read More
Sighet Musueum: Room 83 – The Hungarian Revolution (1956)
This exhibition was inaugurated to mark the fifty anniversary of the anti-communist Hungarian Revolution (23 October – 4 November 1956). It … Read More