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The National Ethnographic Park "Romulus Vuia"

Brief history

The scientific plan of the Park was elaborated in 1929 by Romulus Vuia, starting from the necessity to make a complex ethnographical museum, where the pavilion exhibition and the open air one will complete each other. The Museum was conceived as a living museum where a part of the transferred objectives were going to be lived by representative families for the areas they were brought in.

During 1929-1940, the following objectives were transferred into the Park: the House from Vidra (1929); the roadside cross from Lupsa (1931); a sheepfold together with the shepherd and 75 sheep from Poiana Sibiului (1930); the farmstead from Telciu (1932) - donation from the inhabitants and the barn from Stana (1936). Parallel to these, they made the documentation for transferring the following objectives: the house of the potter Moise Terme from Leheceni - Bihor; farmstead no 397 from Poiana Sibiului, farmsteads from Arieseni (Apuseni Mountains) and Pestera (Bran area), the wooden church from Fildu de Sus (1727), donated in 1924 by the village community, and the one from Negrilesti.

As a result of the Diktat of Wien (the 30th of August 1940), the Ethnographical Museum and the National Park took refuge to Sibiu where they carried on their activity till 1945 when on July in the same year, the staff and the patrimony came back to Cluj. From all the buildings left in the Park before the war, only the house from Vidra survived, the rest being destroyed during the war.

In 1956, Teodor Onisor and Valer Butura restructured the thematic plan of the Park, setting up four sectors: naming the Park: open-air section of the Ethnographical Museum of Transylvania.

• I. Technical installations and workshops
• II. Zonal types of farmsteads and monuments of folk architecture
• III. Ethnobotanical sector (traditional plants and farming buildings at the village boundary)
• IV. Ethnozoological sector (animal breeding and pastoral buildings in the village boundary)

Together with this restructure, the scientific criteria for transferring the buildings into the Ethnographical Park and an ethnographical division on zones were also established.