Blue House

Casa Albastră (The Blue House), today offices and workshops of the Brukenthal Museum at no. 5, Large Square
the end of the 15th century – the beginning of the 16th century, around 1783, the 20th century
After 1672 the house belonged to pharmacist Georg Vette (originary from Gdansk), his property being composed of two buildings having been bought by Baron Lambert von Moringer. The Baroque transformations start in 1773 and are traceable on a drawing kept at the National Archives in Sibiu. The back wing of the building hosted theatre shows between 1768 and 1783. In 1769, an opening towards Uliţa Balului (Xenopol Street) was executed.
The name “The blue house of the city” dates from 1819. Between 1858 and 1862 it was the headquarters of the Society for Natural Sciences.
The ‘At Duke’s Reichstadt’ ready-made clothes store functioned here at the middle of the 19th century and the Academy of Law functioned here as well (between 1858 and 1862).The old coat of arms of Sibiu is painted on the façade.
At the present, it hosts the activity sectors of the Brukenthal Museum (The county office for the national cultural heritage, The area laboratory of restoration, the administrative, accounting and financial sectors).
The masonry of the ground floor of the main body of building is of brick and it is considerably thick: 120 cm.