Total holdings of the Transylvanian Museum

The Transylvanian Museum owns a collection of paintings with works from the 18th century to the present, which is constantly being expanded through purchases, donations and permanent loans. The main focus of the painting collection is on works by artists of the classical modern period. The stylistic range extends from academic naturalism to non-objective abstraction. Among the artists represented in the collection with larger work complexes are: Arthur Coulin, Grete Csaki-Copony, Hans Eder, Ernst Graeser, Ernst Honigberger, Fritz Kimm, Hermann Konnerth, Ernestine Konnerth-Kroner, Hans Mattis-Teutsch, Friedrich Miess, Eduard Morres, Hermann Morres, Henri Nouveau, Jutta Pallos-Schönauer and Walter Widmann. A special collection area is represented by an extensive collection of Romanian reverse glass icons.

The Transylvanian Museum houses about 4,000 works on paper, including drawings, watercolors, prints and historical photographs. The historical framework of the collection spans from the 16th century to the present. The works are predominantly by Transylvanian artists or depict Transylvanian themes. The collection focuses on 17th century prints and 19th and early 20th century prints. Through donations and purchases, the collection of Transylvanian graphic art after 1945 has also grown considerably in recent years.
Among others, Sieglinde Bottesch, Arthur Coulin, Gert Fabritius, Juliana Fabritius-Dancu, Ernst H. Graeser, Hans Hermann, Fritz Kimm, Hermann Konnerth, Ludwig Rohbock, Trude Schullerus, Heinz Schunn, Susanne Schunn, Kaspar Lukas Teutsch and Helfried Weiß are represented. Separate areas are the collections of documentary graphics of the 17th - 20th centuries with depictions of traditional costumes and customs, views and plans of fortified churches as well as city views of Transylvanian towns.

In the course of the museum's history, the collection of pewter foundry work crystallized as one of the more important focal points. The collection contains mainly drinking vessels and guild utensils, especially from the heyday of the pewter foundry trade in the 17th and early 18th centuries, mostly from the inventories of wealthy Transylvanian families: in addition to the slender, tall jug type from Sighisoara, there are also typical urban vessel forms from other pewter centers that were developed later (e.g., the Kronstadt drinking or guild jug). In addition to the slender, tall jug type from Sighisoara, there are typical pewter vessel forms from later eras and other pewter centers (e.g., the Kronstadt drinking jug or guild jug) as well as flattened pewter bottles, plates, bowls and platters that were popular as wedding, christening or New Year's gifts within the guilds.

An extremely relevant collection and documentation area is the clothing department. Together with the home textiles, this makes up about a quarter of the museum's total holdings. Since in a multi-ethnic region like Transylvania traditional costume is an important feature of identity, especially in its festive manifestation, traditional costumes and parts of traditional costumes are of decisive importance, and not only in quantitative terms. Children's, women's and men's clothing for weekdays and Sundays, including both winter and summer outfits, give a vivid overview of the development of the traditional costume, of the various influences from outside and the respective range of goods. However, only a small number of these were industrially produced and purchased, so clothing and home textiles reflect, above all, the extremely wide-ranging craftsmanship of the women. In addition to festive and everyday costumes, the museum owns a collection of contemporary cross-ethnic clothing, which is still being developed. In addition to the traditional costumes of predominantly Transylvanian-Saxon origin, the museum also houses festive costumes of the Hungarians, Romanians and Roma  Within the clothing inventory, the church furs (embroidered sheepskin coats) and breast furs (lambskin vests) made by white furriers form another important focus.

In addition to the collection of traditional costumes and everyday fashion, the Transylvanian Museum also has an extensive collection of home textiles (blankets, pillowcases, wall hangings, towels, etc.). Textiles have a very high representative function among all ethnic groups of Transylvania. They are an area that has also absorbed ethnic symbolism, which finds expression in the assignment of colors, motifs and in the techniques of their production. Similar to the individual pieces of clothing, the embroidery and weaving patterns of the home textiles provide information about the diverse influences of the different ethnic groups on each other.

One of the museum's collections deals with tools used in agriculture and rural crafts in Transylvania (agriculture, viticulture, wood, hemp and wool processing). The importance of viticulture for the region is conveyed by impressive exhibits such as a winepress, which can be visited in the outdoor area of the museum. An entire ropemaking workshop from  in the  was able to be included in the collection. The museum also owns a complete wainwright's workshop from the Harbach Valley. This part of the collection also includes objects of home culture and everyday life. Since 2012, the area of the collection "Transylvanian Saxons in Communist " has been increasingly expanded, since it was noticed in recent years that there was dwindling visible evidence of this branch of history in Romania.

The collection area Church History has been built up since 1999 in order to more closely research and document the thematic complex "Church and Confession", a social aspect that is formative for the Transylvanian Saxons. In terms of material, numerous objects (textiles, furniture, metal goods, works of art) are assigned to this collection area, whose significance can be viewed from new perspectives in the context of their confessional or liturgical use.