Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania
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History
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei was founded June 16, 1922.
Collection
The museum has a collection of more than 50,000 objects reflecting the occupations, the habits and the life style of the Transylvanian rural population. Part of this collection is to be found in the Reduta Palace while the rest of the objects are in the open-air section.
Reduta Palace
The collection here presented is a representative selection of the items and clothes used in rural everyday life. Besides, Reduta Palace also houses a collection of some 50,000 photographs and some 5,000 diapositives. The library of the museum has some 12,000 scholarly journals and specialized magazines.
The Ethnographic Park "Romulus Vuia"
Parcul Etnografic Romulus Vuia, the open-air section of the museum. It opened to the public on April 12, 1929, which makes it the first open-air museum in Romania. However, the park is closed to the public from the beginning of November to the end of April.
The most ancient objects here exhibited date from 1678. The park's main collection is composed of:
- 13 traditional farms with some 90 buildings collected from several transylvanian ethnographical regions: Ţara Moţilor, Ţara Năsăudului, Bistriţa, Câmpia Transilvaniei, Maramureş, Székely Land, Ţara Zarandului, Podgoria Albă, Oaş Country, Gurghiu, Ţara Călatei, Bran
- 34 rural technical installations (mills...)
- 5 workshops
- 3 wooden churches
- a wooden carved cemetery gate.
Gallery
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Door of Cizer church
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Petrindu church in Romulus Vuia park
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Interior door of Petrindu church
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Interior of Petrindu church
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Chiraleş church in Romulus Vuia park
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Interior door of Chiraleş church
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Interior of Chiraleş church
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Wooden Church at Stana (1926), photograph by Denis Galloway. Held by the Museum.
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Petrindu. |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cizer. |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chiraleş. |
Museums in Cluj :
- Cluj-Napoca Art Museum
- National Museum of Transylvanian History
- Water Museum
- Pharmacy Museum
- Babeş-Bolyai University Museums:
External links
- Official Site (en)
Bibliography
- Bodea Gheorghe. Clujul vechi și nou. Cluj-Napoca, 2002
- Lukács József. Povestea oraşului-comoară. Scurtă istorie a Clujului şi monumentelor sale Cluj-Napoca : Apostrof, 2005.