Chișinău Electric Transport Museum · Muzeul Regiei Transport Electric Chișinău
The RTEC trolleybus museum, free, in the Belgian tram building · a guide with 50 years in transport, Romanian and Russian only
The story of the trolleybuses told by a guide with 50 years at RTEC, on the electric route map, then the horse tram in the yard
Worth a free half hour for anyone who loves the city or old vehicles · press the button, a lady who spent a working life in transport comes and tells the story. No English, so bring someone to translate, per one review.
The "Gloria Muncii" museum of the Electric Transport Authority, in a three-storey brick building raised in 1913-1916 at the corner of Columna and Mihai Viteazul streets for the office of the Belgian company that launched the tram in the city, per the RTEC site; the museum opened here in 1974, and Google shows it Monday to Friday, 10:00-14:00, with no address. The site describes the exhibition: photographs of the horse trams, the electric trams and the seven trolleybus models that ran in Chișinău, a 1912 tram map, an electric map of the trolleybus routes with each line lit separately, the first ticket machine from the trolleybuses, ticket punchers, the company chronicle and the list of veterans; in the yard, "the capital's first horse-drawn tram". Reviews: "small, cute but very atmospheric", with "the positive side of the soviet atmosphere" and kind staff; you enter by pressing a button, "in a few minutes a lady comes and welcomes you" and tells the history on an interactive map; "the tour guide worked for the electric transport company for 50 years, so her storytelling is lively and colorful"; admission is free. The reservation comes from a Wednesday visitor, the only one in the museum: "none of the staff speaks English", everything is written only in Romanian and Russian, "I would rather pay for an English guide than be left alone in the middle of the depot".
- "Small, cute but very atmospheric" · kind staff
- "The guide worked for the electric transport company for 50 years, lively and colorful storytelling"
- Free admission
- The 1912 map and the electric trolleybus route map, per the site
- "The capital's first horse-drawn tram", in the yard, per the site
- A Belgian building from 1913-1916, per the site
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“Small, cute but very atmospheric museum. Staff are kind and you really feel the positive aide of soviet atmosphere”
“A very interesting museum to visit, even before you enter it, when you have to press a button and in a few minutes a lady come and welcome you. Then she tells you the history of electric transport in Chisinau and shows the evolution on an interactive map. I recommend this place, it’s free and show you a part of Chisinau history.”
“Excellent place to learn some of the history of Chisinau. Admission is free. The tour guide worked for Chisinau’s electric transport company for 50 years, so her storytelling is lively and colorful.”
- "None of the staff speaks English" · everything written in Romanian and Russian, per one 3-star review
- Open only Monday to Friday, 10:00-14:00
- No address on Google · find the corner of Columna and Mihai Viteazul and press the button at the entrance
- Small · a short stop