The Ethnographic Museum and Modern Art Museum in Baia Mare are outstanding!

The former is composed of an indoor museum with displays of all instruments and articles used in the region over the centuries - wooden plows, butter churns, seeders, clothing, crockery, etc. Located in a nearby park are reconstructions of houses, stables, wells and a church characteristic of western Romania. The interiors are furnished with the kinds of implements used in the recent past.

The Modern Art Museum hosts a wealth of paintings and sculptures by artists who lived for long or brief periods of time in Baia Mare. The works by Romanian, Hungarian, Slavic and Germanic artists are a blend of native and international themes and styles. Some of the paintings might seem to the casual viewer, long-lost works by Gauguin, Picasso, or Boccioni.