Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania

Coordinates: 46°46′09″N 23°35′12″E / 46.7692686°N 23.5865425°E / 46.7692686; 23.5865425 The Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania (in Romanian Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei) is situated in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. With a history of more than 80 years, the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania is one of the first and greatest of its kind in Romania. It has two exhibition sections, one of which is to be found in downtown Reduta Palace (21, Memorandumului Street), while the other exhibition section is the open-air Romulus Vuia Park situated on the city's north-west side, in Hoia Forest.

Reduta Palace.

Cizer church in Romulus Vuia Park.

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

Door of Cizer church
Interior of Cizer church
Petrindu church in Romulus Vuia park
Interior door of Petrindu church
Interior of Petrindu church
Chiraleş church in Romulus Vuia park
Interior door of Chiraleş church
Interior of Chiraleş church
Wooden Church at Stana (1926), photograph by Denis Galloway. Held by the Museum.

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.

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