Dear visitors,
Please do not forget that the hours of the Ethnographic Park will change with the transition to winter time. Therefore, beginning with Sunday, September 30, 2022, the Park will be open for visits from Wednesday-Sunday, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., the last entry at 3 p.m.
We look forward to receiving you!
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The MiniMi music club, in partnership with the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, a public cultural institution that operates under the authority of the Cluj County Council, invites you to the Autumn Concert on Saturday, October 29, 2022, from 5 p.m.
The event will take place at the headquarters of the Transylvanian Museum, 21, Memorandum street.
The concert brings to the public pianists aged 6
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The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, a public cultural institution operating under the authority of the Cluj County Council, will host, in November 12-13, 2022, the 11th edition of the National Musical Interpretation Competition “Gone with the Sound”.
The event is organized by the “Gone with the Sound” team and it will take place in physical format, during the mentioned period, at the
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“Ceapsa” is a part of the headdress worn by married women in some areas of Transylvania and Banat. It can also be described as a bonnet with fine, geometric, woven and stitched embroidery. Depending on the area from which it comes, it presents a great morphological variety, which places this piece of garment in several areal variants with distinctive features. “Ceapsa” appears as an element that
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Denis Galloway - English engineer, naval officer and painter, one of Romulus Vuia’s collaborators, since 1926 began photographing various aspects of the life of the communities in Hunedoara’s Pădureni, thus contributing to enriching the collection of negatives of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography. The refinement, the originality of the decorative motifs and the mastery of the sewing
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The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, a public cultural institution that operates under the authority of the Cluj County Council, in partnership with the Clusium Cultural Association in Cluj-Napoca and the Transylvanian Royal Choral Association invite you on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, from 6 p.m., to the Royal Concert - Coronation Centenary.
The event will take place in the Reduta Hall of the
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Autumn is the time when corn is also harvested, a nutritious food that entered the traditional diet only in the 18th century. Although sensitive to climatic conditions, and its cultivation requires more periodic maintenance works, corn has expanded at the expense of other cereals, adapting even to higher areas, and being cultivated on sunny slopes. After harvesting, corn was transported home,
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Corn-flailing basket
Among the cereals often used in the traditional peasant kitchen were, besides wheat, also millet, oats, and corn. Even though it entered the Romanian agriculture later, corn quickly gained a leading place among the cereals used in the household, both in peasants’ and animals’ food. Keeping it in optimal conditions was an important concern for Romanian peasants, as there
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Baru Mare in Hunedoara county was the main centre for the production of household pots for Hațeg Country and Jiu Valley. The pots produced here and in the surrounding villages (Baru Mic, Livadia de Câmp, Livadia de Coastă) were known as “Bar pots”, due to the fact that the clay used came from Baru Mare, being of very good quality. The main feature of Bar pottery is represented by the thin walls
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As we have announced in one of our previous posts, next weekend we invite you to the MINERALIA exhibition, which is already known to the general public from previous editions.
This autumn’s edition will take place in a new space, recently inaugurated at the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, namely the Cellarium Gallery.
Crystals and minerals from around the world, along with rocks, fossils,
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