The collection of the Parliament’s museum consists of 320 items that are relevant for the history of parliamentarianism. Among these are documents, rare books, historic photographs, souvenirs received by MPs and functionaries as protocol presents in time, IPN reports.

The museum includes 33 documents, such as legislative acts and fragments of handwritten reports, 94 books, 38 paintings, 150 souvenirs as well as old newspaper editions and old work items of MPs and functionaries, such as typing machines, microphones and monitors.

Among the most recent exhibits are the amber Map of Ukraine that was offered as a present by the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk to Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu, a silver-plated copper coin with the building of the Parliament of Romania, including the symbol of the Senate, which was offered to the Speaker by the President of the Senate of Romania Florin-Vasile Cîțu.

The Parliament’s Museum was founded on May 23, 2017. It is open to the public from Monday through Friday, between 8am and 5pm, and can be visited upon the presentation of an ID.

The Legislative Openness Week is annually held in September in the context of the International Day of Democracy that was instituted by the UN on September 15, 2007.