The Brukenthal National Museum, in partnership with the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, a public cultural institution under the authority of the Cluj County Council, invite you on Thursday, March 28, 2024, at 1:00 p.m., to the opening of the exhibition “Mărginimea Sibiului. The area of beautiful girls and peasants with libraries”, which will take place in the Reduta Hall of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography (21, Memorandum street).
The collection of glass clichés of the Brukenthal National Museum, within the “Casa Altemberger” History Museum section, is one of the largest and most complex collections of this kind kept in a museum institution in Romania, covering most of the subjects specific to photography from the interwar period.
The images, with the subject of Mărginimea Sibiului (localities: Boița, Galeș, Jina, Orlat, Poiana Sibiului, Poplaca, Rășinari, Rod, Sadu, Săliște, Tilișca - mentioned here in alphabetical order), total approximately 277 pieces and were made in the Fischer photography studio, a studio located in the city center, on the current Nicolae Bălcescu street.
The exhibition presents images less known to visitors, such as general views of the localities that represent the Mărginea Sibiului area, sequences of daily life, interiors of some peasant homes, portraits of young and old, women and men dressed in their best clothes which they would wear only at the church or on holidays, all passed through the filter of a scenography carefully thought out by the photographer.
The exhibition is completed with archival images and folk costume pieces from the collections of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography. The archival images were taken in the first half of the 20th century by the institution’s curators: R. Vuia, T. Onișor and I. Maloș. Both the archival images and the folk costume pieces come from Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area (Săliște, Rășinari and Poiana Sibiului).
The exhibition will be open from March 28 to April 30, 2024, from Wednesday to Sunday, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., last entry at 5 p.m.