The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography celebrates a century.
Initially founded as the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania, the first ethnographic museum in Romania was a project initiated by the Governing Council of Transylvania and completed by the “Prince Carol” Cultural Foundation. In the spring of 1922, Emil Panaitescu, Sextil Pușcariu, George Vâlsan and Alexandru Lapedatu were appointed - by this foundation – as members of the Commission of the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania. On June 16, 1922, the commission proposed the emergent establishment of an ethnographic museum in Cluj, and on June 22, 1922, the foundation of the artifact collection and the visual archive was under discussion.
The first research and acquisition campaigns took place in the Land of Pădureni and Hațeg Country, areas previously researched by Romulus Vuia, the first director of the museum, appointed in January 1923.
As we would like to mark this first period of the museum, beginning with January 28, for 50 weeks, we will weekly introduce the public to an artifact and an archive, a total number of 100 posts - one for each year of the museum existence.