Annual Fairs

Fair of Folk Craftsmen

Annual fairs

The Craftsmen Fair is organized annually in May in Cluj-Napoca, organized by the Ethnographical Museum of Transylvania. This institution, since its founding, gathered with patience and scientific competence thousands, tens of thousands of proofs of the traditional civilization in the Romanian space.

The folk craftsmen: potters, textile makers, wooden carvers, icons makers etc who honored our institution are already very well known in Romania, but also abroad. Many of them have followers: sons, grandsons or just young people who are delighted by the mystery of the traditional crafts and their finality - the objects - which become particular signs of the ethnographical areas.

These products that try to keep the traditional line of the folk crafts become essential elements of the ethnographical language in the specialist domain.

Through this type of events, the Ethnographical Museum of Transylvania proposed itself to become part of a European program concerning the revival of the traditional crafts in the cultural spaces which, step by step and differentially, lost the science to create things for the individual, family or collectivity life.

Annual fairs

The traditional crafts represent nowadays an attraction and an interest in the same time which could not be foreseen on the times when the modernization and industrialization were dreams and obsessions of the European societies.

Nowadays it is more and more understood that the craft practiced by the those people who have known the clay, wood, iron mystery and of all the elements from the heart of the earth, the mystery of the plants with their amazing color variants used for cloths, carpets and all the textiles woven by the same blessed hand, so that those knowledge and skills had to do with the most precious man's gift, the human creativity.

The fairs organized today by the museums or other cultural institutions do not look like the fairs from the beginning of the century the first ones taking into account the ancient creation, the pattern of the traditional thinking, the ingenuity of the man grown up in a co-existence with the nature.

Our craftsmen, people who still know the ancient secrets, who amaze thousands and thousands of people with the results of their work and art, are true bearers of the mysteries of the traditional rural life.

Visit program

Main Building's Section

Tuesday-Sunday:

9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday closed.

Ethnographic Park "Romulus Vuia": 1st of May - 31st of October: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (last entry 4 p.m.), Monday closed. The Park is closed between 1st of November and 30th of April.

Acces: buses - lines 26, 27, 28, 30, 41, "Piata 14 iulie" station

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