The astronomical observatory functions in the building owned at first by Admiral Vasile Urseanu. In 1933, the City Art Gallery made of the place its first location. The museum shelters an exhibition on the history of Romanian astronomy; the collection includes documents, books and manuscripts, period items, original telescope, ancient sun disks, old astronomical tools, panels with rare astronomical phenomena noticed in our country, next to the equipment of the Observatory itself, including an equatorial telescope with an objective 150 mm in diameter.