• Road access: From Baia Mare to Sighetu Marmaţiei (distance 67 km) on DN 18 (National Road 18), through the Gutâi Pass, on the route Baia Mare - Vadu Izei – Sighetu Marmaţiei; From Satu Mare to Sighetu Marmaţiei (distance 100 km) on DN 19 route Satu Mare – Livada -Negreşti Oaş - Săpânţa - Sighetu Marmaţiei; The route from Moldova to Sighet is crossed by driving on DN 18, from Suceava, through the Prislop pass (DN 18 from Suceava) and then through Borşa (Borşa-Sighet 70 km) route Borşa-Moisei-Vişeu de Sus-Petrova-Sighet.

The Cemetery of the Poor is included in the Sighet Memorial and it is 2 km away from the town, at the exit to Satu Mare. This architectural development is dedicated to the remembrance of the political prisoners who died or were executed in communist prisons, camps and deportations, as well as to the remembrance of partisans killed in the fight against the State Security. The development of this cemetery began after 1997, when the Memorial to the Victims of Communism and to Resistance was declared – by law number 95 – a "development of national concern".

The museum of Maramureş is a regional museum that illustrates the historical region of Maramureş; its current structure is included in the category of national representative museum complexes from among the complexes for each historic region. This is a museum complex with an ethnological emphasis and pavilion exhibition, in open air. The museum hosts sections of history-archaeology, history of culture and memoirs, natural sciences, art gallery and more in situ conservations as museum points in the main subzones of Maramureş. Additional information is available on the museum’s website: www.muzeulmaramuresului.ro.

The Memorial to the Victims of Communism and to Resistance is represented by the museum found in the former political prison of and by the International Centre of Studies on Communism, headquartered in Bucharest. The main goal of the memorial is restore and to preserve the memory of a number of peoples, especially the Romanian people who, throughout half a century, was taught false history.

In 1897, Austro-Hungarian authorities built the Sighet prisons which, after 1918, it operated as a penitentiary for common-law prisoners. After the Second World War, respectively after 1945, the former prisoners and formerly deported from the USSR were repatriated, and in 1948, it became the place of detention of a group of Maramureş pupils, students and peasants. In 1950, more than 100 officials from across the country were brought at the Sighet penitentiary; they included former ministers, academics, economists, militaries, historians, journalists and politicians; heavy penalties had been applied to some of them, while others were not even subject to court proceedings. The conditions in which the prisoners were accommodated were unsanitary, and humiliation and dishonour were part of the extermination agenda.

In 1955, after the Geneva Convention and communist Romania’s entrance in the United Nations, a pardon was given, and some of the political prisoners in the Romanian penitentiaries were released, while some others were transferred to other places, including in house arrest. However, from the approx. 100 prisoners of Sighet, 54 had already died by then. In the following years, other political prisoners were brought to Sighet, especially prisoners "in transit" to the psychiatric ward in the locality. In 1977, the prison was decommissioned and started to deteriorate; it became a manufacture of brooms, then a salt storage area and, finally, a deserted ruin.

"Marmaţia" Winter Traditions Festival, the largest winter festival of its kind in Maramureş, it is celebrated each year in the town streets. The main moment of the event is represented by the parade of the groups of people in popular outfits specific to their zone, the parade of masked characters, of horsemen and of adorned carriages.