Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilisation — Magna Curia
The baroque Magna Curia palace, in central Deva, houses the history collections of the Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilisation and a lapidarium with over a hundred archaeological pieces.
Magna Curia is a category A historic monument, originally built as a residence for Transylvanian prince Gabriel Bethlen and his wife Susana, who substantially altered the building between 1614 and 1618. In the mid-18th century, Transylvania's governor Ioan Haller and his wife, Sofia Dániel, turned it into a baroque palace, an appearance preserved to this day. The building stands at 39, 1 Decembrie Boulevard.
It houses the history and numismatics sections of the Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilisation — prehistoric, Dacian, Roman and early medieval pieces, alongside ethnography and natural sciences collections (botany, palaeontology, mineralogy). Behind the palace stands the Lapidarium, a glass structure with over a hundred massive archaeological pieces, arranged in five themed rooms.
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