Franz Binder Museum of Universal Ethnography

 mummy (preserved), Neo-Gothic (architecture), 1860s construction, 19th century construction, tourist attraction, museum of ethnology

Is the only museum in Romania that specialises in non-European ethnology. It was opened in 1993 in a house known as the Hermes House, former House of the Association of Small Tradesmen (Burger und Gewerbeverein Haus), built between 1865-1867.
It was based around an initial group of artifacts collected by the members of the Transylvanian Association for Natural Sciences (German: Siebenburgische Verein fur Naturwissenschaften) in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The collections were expanded after the museum's opening, and now number over 3000 items.
The museum is named after Franz Binder, a merchant and a diplomat who spent more than 20 years in Africa at the middle of the 19th century. A particularly remarkable piece in the museum is an ancient Egyptian mummy donated by the Austro-Hungarian consul in Egypt in 1907, Hermann von Hannenheim. The newer collections contain artifacts from Japan, Indonesia, Ecuador and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition, over 400 pieces have been donated from the gifts fund donated to the Romanian Presidency between 1965 and 1989.