The Royal Inn is one of the oldest civil buildings in the city of Suceava. It was erected over an older building, within an area for merchant shops, especially pottery shops, during the 15-16th centuries. The ground floor dates from the end of the 16th  century and the beginning of the 17th  but the floor is from a more recent period.

The building was a guest house for the nobles, a hunting house for Emperor Franz Josef, a gendarmerie headquarters, a private property until 1962, when it was eventually taken by the state in order to be restored and organised so as to house the ethnography and folk art exhibition. (Bucovina's Ethnographic Museum).