National Unification Museum
The National Museum of Unification, located in the Babylon Building, was originally built for military purposes between 1851 and 1853 and transformed into a museum in 1887. The museum features a prehistory section, a Dacian-Roman and feudal sections, and sections for the great battles with the Turks, the Revolution of 1848, the Unification of the Principalities in 1859, World War I, the Union of Transylvania with Romania.
Its two floors and over 100 rooms host the permanent exhibition, the warehouse, the library and the restorations laboratories. The Unification Hall, also belonging to the National Museum, was opened in 1895 as Military Casino of the Garrison in Alba Iulia, but its distinctive historical significance is given by the fact that it hosted, on 1 December 1918, the rally of the 1228 Romanian delegates from Transylvania, who decided the province's union with Romania.
The National Museum of Unification in Alba Iulia is one of the finest in Romania. The museum is host in a building originally built for military purpose, Babilon Building dates since the half of the 19th century (1851-1853). Since 1968 the building has became the headquarters of the Unification National Museum. Its two floors and over 100 rooms host the basic exhibition, the warehouse, and the library and restorations laboratories.
This establishment was founded in 1887 and it occupies two important buildings in the middle of the City: The Babilon Building, built up in 1851 and The Unification Hall Building, built up in 1906. The museum exhibits over 130000 pieces of priceless works included in its patrimony, starting with a pre-historia section, then Dacian-Roman and feudal sections, the great battles with the Turks, the Revolution in 1848, the Unification of the Principalities in 1859, the Unification of Transylvania with Romania, etc. The Unification Hall was highlightened in 1895 as the Military Casino of the Garrison in Alba Iulia, but its distinctive historical signification is given by the fact that it hosted, on the First of December 1918, the Rally of the 1228 Romanian delegates from all Transylvania, who decided the Unification of this ancient province with Romania
The Union Hall
Symbolic building, sealed on the consciousness of Romanian people as the place of one of the most important events of the national history, the Unification from the 1st of December 1918. It was here where the session of the great national Assembly took place, on the 1st December 1918, and decided the unification of Transylvania with Romania, and therefore of the Unitary National state. The original documents of the unification are exhibited here together with the flags carried by the delegates from the whole country for this great event.