Tekla TÖTSZEGI
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
tekla_totszegi@yahoo.com
The Technological-Industrial Museum of Cluj opened its doors in 1888, with the name “Franz Iosif I Museum of Industry”, in memory of the Emperor's visit to Cluj, made in 1887.
Frequent changes of premises, of exhibition spaces and finally the institution closing; transfers of artefacts between different institutions, which often resulted in the loss of essential documents needed for artefacts identification; all these considerably complicate both the research work and the attempts for exhibitional and educational valorisation.
This paper aims to synthesise the information published, mostly in Hungarian, about the Technological-Industrial Museum from Cluj and to add the results of our own research on artefacts that nowadays belong to the Transylvanian Ethnographic Museum’s collections, wishing to provide a starting point for possible future publications on the subject.
Keywords: Technological-Industrial Museum, collection, craft, applied art, ethnography