The museum building is a historic monument and was erected in 1892. For a time it was used as home and later on as professional school. It was restored between 1989 and 1990. The museum was established by Anton Badea due to the desire of conserving and presenting the monuments of architecture, technical installations and folk art artefacts of the area. In 1970 the Reghin Ethnographic Museum became county museum, with the designation of its research area, which exceeds the border of the Mureş county and covers several distinct ethnographic areas (604 rural settlements in the county of Mureş and about 300 localities in neighbouring counties). The exhibits include artefacts relating ...to crafts, costumes and customs specific of the Upper Valley of Mureş, the Valley of Gurghiu and a part of the Transylvanian Plain. The museum has over 5,800 artefacts, 13,000 photographs and slides, 80 ethnographic movies. Technical installations prevail (oil press, watermill, wine press). The museum owns goods listed in the National Cultural Heritage Treasure.
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