Satu Mare
has a County Museum, an Art Museum, and a theatre, the North Theatre, built in
1889 which has both a Hungarian and a Romanian section. Concerts are given by
the “Dinu Lipatti Philharmonic”, formerly the state symphonic orchestra of Satu
Mare, in a concert hall in a wing of the Dacia Hotel. The county library had
320.000 books in 1997, including a special bibliophile collections of over
70.000 volumes.
