Museum of Arad was opened in 1893 as a revolution forty-eighter relics exhibition, displayed in the hall on the second floor of the State Theatre (the current building); Two decades later, the museum was moved to the new place built - Cultural Palace (1913), along with the philharmonic and the town library; here were built alongside the old relics exhibition, exhibition halls collection of archeology and medieval history as well as a European art gallery.
In the interwar period, they were added an ethnographic exhibition and two memorial rooms dedicated to politicians and Vasile Goldis și Ștefan Cicio-Pop (1934).
Today the museum holds over 125,000 pieces and is a very active player on the cultural scene Arad; Arad Museum Complex museal activity takes place in: Lipova City Museum, Ioan Slavici and Emil Monția - Șiria, Vine and Wine Museum of Miniș (common Ghioroc), Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn Memorial Museum in Zăbrani; they will be presented separately for each village.
