Revolution Memorial Museum

The Memorial Museum of the 1989 Revolution occupies a small building on Popa Sapca Street, a five-minute walk west of Victory Square. It is the most direct, detailed account of the events of 16–22 December 1989 — the protests that began outside the Reformed Church of pastor László Tőkés in Timisoara and spread across the country, leading to the fall of the Ceaușescu regime.

The exhibits are a mix of photographs, original documents, video footage, weapons, and personal items from the casualties (the museum lists 73 dead and over 200 wounded in Timisoara alone). One room is given to a continuous projection of the footage shot by participants and journalists during the protests. Free entry. The Reformed Church on Timotei Cipariu Street, where the protest began with the defence of pastor Tőkés, is a few hundred metres south.

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The museum was created by a former dissident, Traian Orban, and is staffed largely by witnesses to the December 1989 protests. The exhibits include shrapnel from the Securitate fire, original protest banners, and recovered identity papers of the victims. The institutional history of the revolution — Bucharest, the trial, the post-1989 politics — is given less space than the human story of the people who were there on the square.