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In the Ethnographical Museum of Transylvania the original objects – 41.542 – are kept in the following 8 sections and 40 sub-sections:

I. Occupations with 10 sub-sections. The museum patrimony included in 10 sub-sections reflects the traditional occupations of the ethnographical areas of Transylvania, Maramures, Crisuri Country and Banat. Together with utensils and secular tools - some of them endured till the contemporary times - there is an object inventory connected to the trades and also to the artistic products, pointing out the various technology and the stage of the folk civilization on different progressive and chronological steps.

II. Dwelling, Food with 6 sub-sections. The folk art collections connected to the traditional dwelling come from the areas covering the scientific interest of the Ethnographical Museum of Transylvania, and they are organized typologically and functionally within the museum patrimony.

III. Pottery with 5 sub-sections. The pottery, product of a millenary trade, is organized in functional collections (for use within the household, ritual within the traditional customs) and depending on the ethnic groups (Romanian, Hungarian, Saxon, Haban type). A special compartment is formed by the dated pottery from the XVth-XXth centuries, forming a fund of a special value.

IV. Textile with 6 sub-sections. The collections of traditional textiles (over 10,000 pieces) represent an ancient trade of textile plants and wool processing. Organized on a functional criterion (for using, decorative, ritual) and also on the ethnic one, these collections reflect the element of co-existence and of inter-zonal and inter-ethnic influences. In the same time they point out the specificity of the folk Carpathian art (Romanian, Hungarian, German, Serbian, Slovakian, Bulgarian etc.) with the styles, the chromatics and the decorative original and native motifs.

V. Clothing with 7 sub-sections. The patrimony of the costume (the Romanian costume and the national minorities' one) reflects the art of the textile plants, wool and leather processing on the Transylvanian territory, on Maramures, Crisuri Country and Banat with over 30 types of costumes and the same number of variants. The collections are organized typologically, being possible to notice the symbolic connotations of the costume pieces and the distinctive marks - ethnic, zonal, social, economic, ritual ones.

VI. Customs with 6 sub-sections. Through the objects of these collections, one can notice their significance within the rites and the calendar rituals or their relation with the ethnoiatric and magic practices, folk music and choreography. They make the connection between the object, artistic traditional creation and the spirituality specific to the Romanian culture and civilization.

VII. International Section Contains objects from many continents: Europe (Albania, Czech Republic, Ukraine), Africa (Ethiopia), North America, Asia (China).

VIII. Open Air Section completes the pavilion section by its complex structure.