annual collection 2016

The postage stamp issue “Flowers of the Thorns” presents flower species found in Romania, which combine the beauty of flowers with the armour of thorns. The stamp with the face value of lei 4.70 reproduces the image of the Dipsacus fullonum plant, known by the common name of wild teasel. It is native to Eurasia […]

Only twenty years after the inauguration of the Paris Louvre Museum, in Sibiu took place, in 1817, the opening of the Brukenthal National Museum, the oldest in Romania and one of the oldest in Europe. The museum, achieved through the will and testament of the former Governor of Transylvania (Samuel von Brukenthal – 1721-1803), became,