Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
Reduta Palace
Wednesday – Sunday: 10:00 – 18:00 (last entry 17:00)
ONLINE TICKETS
Ethnographic Park
Wednesday – Sunday: 9:00 – 16:00 (last entry 15:00)
ONLINE TICKETS
Ticket: Adults 10 lei, Pensioners 5 lei, Students, pupils (school children), preschoolers 2.50 lei, Groups over 10 people 7.50 lei / person
Photography Fees: Amateur photography 5 lei/person, Amateur photography/filming of events for non-commercial purposes 150 lei/hour
Tours: Guided tours in Romanian, Hungarian, French (Reduta Palace), and English 50 lei
Guided tours are subject to availability and must be booked by calling 0783005146 or by email at contact@muzeul-etnografic.ro.
Reduta Palace
“The Measure” Visiting hours 10-18, Wednesday to Sunday
Cellarium Gallery
Mineralia - Martisor crystals
Cellarium Gallery
Martisor fair and Women's Day gifts
Events at MET
Temporary exhibitions
The initiative for establishing the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography belonged to the Directing Council of Transylvania, which, through the general inspector of museums, Coriolan Petranu, made the first steps in this regard.
After the dissolution of the Directing Council, the project to organize the museum was completed by the ‘Prince Carol’ Cultural Foundation. On May 1, 1922, the Foundation formed a commission tasked with organizing the museum, which included illustrious personalities of the era: Sextil Pușcariu, George Vâlsan, Alexandru Lapedatu, George Oprescu, and Romulus Vuia, the latter becoming the institution’s first director (1923-1948).
The first research campaigns, carried out in the years 1922-1923, were finalized by the acquisition of 1230 objects and the creation of 160 photographs. These ethnographic materials formed the basis for the first permanent ethnographic exhibition, which opened in the spring of 1923.
The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography in stats
In its over 100 years of operation, the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography has gathered tens of thousands of artifacts and collectible photographs, some of which are displayed in the permanent exhibitions, while others are available to the public during various temporary exhibitions.
Until 1925, the museum provisionally functioned in the building of the former Museum of Arts and Trades on George Barițiu street. The museum’s very first permanent headquarters was located in Mihai Viteazul Square, in a building that had previously housed, among other things, the Museum of Relics. Here, on June 17, 1928, an exceptional permanent exhibition was inaugurated, organized into the following thematic sectors: collecting from nature, hunting, fishing, agriculture, animal husbandry, home textile industry, furriery, pottery, furniture, construction elements, kitchen/cuisine, folk costume, embroidery and weaving, and ethnographic cartography
Between 1935 and 1957, with an interruption during the years 1940-1945, the museum functioned in the Casino building in the city’s public park. Here, the third permanent exhibition was officially inaugurated on July 17, 1937, in the presence of King Carol II, featuring the same thematic sectors presented in the 1928 exhibition.
Reduta Palace
The Reduta building, which houses the pavilion section of the museum, takes its name from the main hall in the building (from the French redoute = dance hall). In the 19th century, the Reduta Hall hosted many important events in the political and cultural history of Transylvania.
The current permanent exhibition entitled “Transylvanian Folk Culture – sec. XVIII-XX“, inaugurated in 2006, tries to reconstruct, through exhibits, this rural universe, characterised by its organicity, highlighting its unexpected complexity and the functional coherence of its components. In addition to the permanent exhibition, a tactile exhibition and various temporary exhibitions are organised in the exhibition space.
”Romulus Vuia” Ethnographic Park
The National Ethnographic Park "Romulus Vuia" in Cluj-Napoca, the first open-air museum in Romania, was founded on June 1, 1929, as a section of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, by a decision of the Ministry of Culture and Arts.
During World War II, most of the buildings in the Ethnographic Park were destroyed.
The park is divided into two main sectors: the technical installations sector and the farmsteads sector.
The first sector includes technical installations and peasant workshops dating back to the 18th -20th centuries, illustrating traditional techniques for working wood, iron, gold, wool, clay, stone, cereals and olive oil.
The second sector contains traditional peasant farmsteads representative of distinct ethnographic areas of Transylvania, with buildings from the 17th-20th centuries, equipped with all the necessary household inventory.
The park also contains three traditional churches, monuments of folk architecture.
The experience gained by the museum staff over the last 5 years of participating in Erasmus+ mobility programmes has led to an increase in the quality of services offered to the general public, including people with special needs, and to the development of collaborative programmes with members of the local community of all ages.
