Timisoara is a powerful national and cultural centre, ensuring its inhabitants and visitors a cultural offer extremely valuable and diversified.

The inhabitants of Timisoara perceive culture as a facet of the social reality, necessary in order to regenrate the spirirtual energies of the community, and in the same time, as a factor that changes the urban area into an open intelectual one, with a proclivity to the world.

Culture has an unconfusable and attractive character to the tourists as well as to the natives, that seek for that peculiarity within the cultural manifestations that could transform their visit into a memorable experience.

The idea of Open Art City is more and more promoted in Timisoara, as besides the already consecrated events throughout the year, art is also taken to unconventional areas and to the streets, giving a new meaning to these events.

The main cultural institutions that define the cultural life in Timişoara, are:

The Romanian National Opera House Timişoara	The National Theatre „Mihai Eminescu” Timişoara	The „Banatul” Philharmonic
The Hungarian State Theatre „Csiky Gergely” Timişoara	The German State Theatre Timişoara	The Children and Youth’s Theatre “Merlin”
The Culture House of the Municipality of Timişoara	The Directorate for Culture of the Timis County	The Center of Culture and Art of the Timiş County
The German Cultural Center TimiŞoara	The French Institute TimiŞoara	Students House of Culture

Cultural associations and foundations in Timişoara

The Association "Timişoara 2021- European Capital of Culture"