Over 1,300 gold exhibits on display at the Gold Museum

Over 1,300 gold exhibits and more than 1,000 mineral samples are shown at the Gold Museum, in Brad, Hunedoara county, which has recently re-opened for visitors, after five years. During this time, the building was rehabilitated, and the museum’s collection examined and assessed.

The insurance value of some of the pieces in the collection is evaluated at EUR 500,000.

“Imagine that the museum shelters the world’s most valuable 4.5 kg gold. The insurance value of some of the exhibits amounts to EUR 500,000. We know gold more as ingots, jewelry, and few know it as Good God created it. These gems were taken out from the Earth through the efforts of more than 40,000 miners, who used to work at the pit in Barza,” Brad municipality’s mayor Florin Cazacu explained at the Museum’s inaugural ceremony.

According to him, the native gold exhibits the Museum shows are valuable because of the shape they were found in as, some of them looking quite like a lizard, a feather or a crystal at whose pointed edges gold grains cluster together.

The Gold Museum in Brad entered a rehabilitation program five years ago. About RON 3 million was invested in the rehabilitation of the museum’s building, which is to remain the property of the Minvest Deva Company, to which Barza gold pits belonged.

Over 1,300 gold exhibits and more than 1,000 mineral samples are shown at the Gold Museum, in Brad, Hunedoara county, which has recently re-opened for visitors, after five years. During this time, the building was rehabilitated, and the museum’s collection examined and assessed.

The insurance value of some of the pieces in the collection is evaluated at EUR 500,000.

“Imagine that the museum shelters the world’s most valuable 4.5 kg gold. The insurance value of some of the exhibits amounts to EUR 500,000. We know gold more as ingots, jewelry, and few know it as Good God created it. These gems were taken out from the Earth through the efforts of more than 40,000 miners, who used to work at the pit in Barza,” Brad municipality’s mayor Florin Cazacu explained at the Museum’s inaugural ceremony.

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