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NIGHT OF MUSEUMS 2013

Events | 16.05.2013 22:28

TRANSYLVANIAN MUSEUM OF ETHNOGRAPHY NIGHT OF MUSEUMS 2013 ACTIVITIES TRANSYLVANIAN MUSEM OF ETHNOGRAPHY – NATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHIC PARK “ROMULUS VUIA”, TAIETURA TURCULUI STREET, NO NUMBER Visiting hours: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, 18th of May, free entrance 1 – 5 p.m. – BALMOS FEAST (organiser: Eugen Ţepeş) The traditional meal of the International Musems Day: THE TRANSYLVANIAN BALMOS Traditional music, dances and customs offered by folk groups from Cluj. With the participation of Folk Group of the Folk School of Art “Tudor Jarda” TRANSYLVANIAN MUSEM OF ETHNOGRAPHY – REDUTA PALACE, Memorandum Street no 21 Visiting hours: Saturday, 18th of May: 4 p.m. – 1 a.m. (last entrace) – free access. Sunday, 19th of May: 12 – 5 p.m., with visiting fee. PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS: "Folk Culture of Transylvania – 18th-19th centuries” – permanent exhibition of the Transylvanian Musem of Ethnography „Touch and Understand. The Tactil Message of the Peasant Traditional Objects”...

Two Pieces – One Pair. The Footwear: Shapes, Techniques, Roles

Exhibitions | 29.04.2013 14:46

On 30th of April 2013, at 2 p.m., the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography opens the exhibition “Two Pieces – One Pair. The Footwear: Shapes, Techniques, Roles”. The exhibition represents an approach in time by making an outline of the basic roles of the footwear, the morphological types specific to certain climatic areas and different periods, the contemporary shapes of these types. The exhibition emphasizes the craftsmen’s role and presents the basic types used in the Transylvanian traditional rural society with references to the influences in the noble-urban environment.

Schedule for Easter Holiday

Announcements | 29.04.2013 15:18

Between 1st and 6th of May, the Ethnographic Park (Taietura Turcului Street, no number) will be opened as follows: May 1, 2, 3 – opened May 4, 5, 6 – closed The Indoor Section (Memorandum Street no. 21) will be opened as follows: May 2, 3 – opened May 1, 4, 5, 6 – closed Beginning with 7th of May, both sections of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography will be opened from Tuesday to Sunday between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (for the Ethnographic Park – last entry at 4 p.m.)

THE SCHEDULE IN MAY AT THE ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM

Announcements | 29.04.2013 15:17

Starting with 1st of May 2013, the visiting program in the National Ethnographical Park “Romulus Vuia”, the open-air section of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., last entry at 4 p.m., from Tuesday to Sunday. Opened in 1929, the National Ethnographical Park “Romulus Vuia” is the oldest outside ethnographic museum in Romania and one of the first museums in Europe. The Ethnographic Park has in present 15 ha, in which there are exhibited over 50 monuments...

Icons Exhibition

Exhibitions | 24.04.2013 18:45

The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography invites you to the exhibition opening Adriana Homorodean – The Tradition of Laz Icons on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 6 p.m. in the “Icon Workshop” in Stefan cel Mare Square no. 5. The exhibition will be opened between April, 25 and May 11 2013.