The Transylvanian
Museum
of Ethnography

100 years – 100 artefacts

18.11.2022

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The ceramic pots used to prepare, store, transport and consume food, played an important role in people’s daily lives. In their production process, burning is an essential stage, during which, through fire, the clay changes its chemical and physical properties, becoming a more durable material. Burning represents the use of fire in a special kiln, built to obtain temperatures necessary to change

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Book release - Ioan Opriș: A life dedicated to the National Cultural Heritage

17.11.2022

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The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, a public cultural institution that operates under the authority of the Cluj County Council, invites you on Friday, November 25, 2022, from 6 p.m., to the book release “Ioan Opriș. A life dedicated to the National Cultural Heritage”. The volume is coordinated by Mircea Ciubotaru, Aurica Ichim, Alexandru Constantin Chituță. HG Andrei Andreicut, Aurica Ichim

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100 years – 100 artefacts

11.11.2022

Keepers of Tradition

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The hood, made of thick home-woven woolen cloth, is a utilitarian garment common to shepherd groups around the globe, with many variations in cut and decoration. The use of this textile object can be dated in the Carpathian area at least from antiquity, as highlighted by the representations on Trajan’s Column. This fact also fascinated the ethnographer Romulus Vuia, who captured in his research

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100 years – 100 artefacts

11.11.2022

Keepers of Tradition

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Just like nowadays, in the traditional family, the woman had an essential role. We find her in the position of wife, mother, but also housewife, involved in all household and family activities. However, giving birth, raising, educating and protecting children are the most valuable attributes of a woman. The image of the woman in the traditional society who carried her child on her back, in a

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IMPORTANT

11.11.2022

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Dear visitors, On Saturday, November 12, 2022, our Museum will host the National Musical Interpretation Competition "On the wings of sound". For this reason, the pavilion section of our museum (Str. Memorandum no. 21) cannot be visited. Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to seeing you on Sunday, November 13, during the regular hours, 10-18, last entry at 17.00.

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100 years – 100 artefacts

04.11.2022

Keepers of Tradition

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The object in the image is a key that operated a locking mechanism located inside the door. An archaic, simple and ingenious system, executed exclusively from wood by carpenters. This way of securing a door ends up being replaced almost entirely, starting from the 19th century, with a safer, more complex closing system, only the old wooden churches (some from the beginning of the 17th century)

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100 years – 100 artefacts

04.11.2022

Keepers of Tradition

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In the traditional village, there was a strong connection between the community and the church. All holidays, important moments in human life (birth, marriage and death), as well as social life had the church at its center. Here was the judgment place of the village community where the community members met on holidays, here was the place where babies were baptized, where young people were

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THE ETHNOGRAPHIC PARK SWITCHES TO WINTER TIME

27.10.2022

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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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AUTUMN CONCERT

24.10.2022

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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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GONE WITH THE SOUND

24.10.2022

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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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This project is financed with the support of EEA Grants 2014 2021 within the RO CULTURE Program me

VISITING HOURS

WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY

REDUTA PALACE (MAIN BUILDING – Memorandum Street no 21):
- 10-18
ETHNOGRAPHIC PARK „Romulus Vuia”. Every year the schedule of the Park is changing depending on the hour change (winter hour in October and summer hour in March).
- Winter visiting hours
  - 9-16 (LAST ENTRY 15)
- Summer visiting hours
  - 10-18 (LAST ENTRY 17)
- Monday and Tuesday closed.

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VIRTUAL TOUR

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Farmstead in the Ethnographic Park
can be visited in this virtual tour.
Installations in the Ethnographic Park
can be visited in this virtual tour.
The Reduta Palace
can be visited in this virtual tour.
Cultural objectives of General Interest in Cluj-Napoca
can be visited in this virtual tour.

Access

Reduta Palace

Memorandum Street no 21, 400114,

Cluj-Napoca, România

Phone +40264 592344, +40371113733, Fax: +4 0264 592148

Visiting Hours:

Wednesday – Sunday 10-18

Situated in the historical centre of the city. The access to the information is facilitated for various categories of persons with disabilities by a permanent tactile exhibition designed especially to the persons with visual impairments and by special platforms that make possible the access for the persons with locomotive disabilities.

Ticket price:

Adults: 10 lei/person.
Preschoolers, pupils, students: 2.50 lei
Adults with moderate / mild disabilities: 2.50 lei/person.
Pensioners, war veterans and their widows: 5 lei/person.
Group of visitors minimum 10 people: 7.50 lei/person.
Guide – groups of at least 10 people
- guide in Romanian 50 lei/group
- guide* in Hungarian, English and French 50 lei/group
- *foreign language guidance requires an appointment
Amateur photo fee: 5 lei/camera

Ethnographic Park

Taietura Turcului (Turk’s Cut) Street, no number

Summer schedule

Wednesday – Sunday 10-18 (last entry 17)

Winter schedule

Wednesday – Sunday 9-16 (last entry 15)

Situated at the city outskirts near to Hoia Forest. You can get to the Park by bus (no 26, 27, 28, 30, 41 – to Piata 14 iulie – 14th of July Square or no 37 from Mihai Viteazul Square to the Industrial Park Tetarom – situated in the closed proximity of the Ethnographical Park) – see the buss schedule here; by taxi – see the main taxi companies in Cluj-Napoca here

Ticket price:

Adults: 10 lei/person.
Preschoolers, pupils, students: 2.50 lei
Adults with moderate / mild disabilities: 2.50 lei/person.
Pensioners, war veterans and their widows: 5 lei/person.
Group of visitors minimum 10 people: 7.50 lei/person.
Guide – groups of at least 10 people
- guide in Romanian 50 lei/group
- guide* in Hungarian, English and French 50 lei/group
- *foreign language guidance requires an appointment
Amateur photo fee: 5 lei/camera

Icons Workshop

Stefan cel Mare Square no 5

Visiting hours:

Monday-Friday 10-16

The exhibition space and the Restoration Workshop situated in the close proximity of the Tailors’ Tower, near to the inner wall of the medieval city

Museum Galleries

Reduta Palace, Memorandum Street no 21

Visiting hours: Wednesday – Sunday 10-18

National Ethnograhic Park “Romulus Vuia”, Taietura Turcului Street, no number

Program de vizitare: miercuri-duminică

Summer schedule: 10-17
Winter schedule: 9-15

International Airport Cluj-Napoca, Traian Vuia Street no 149-151

Visiting hours: Monday-Friday 10-18, Saturday: 12-16

The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography has 3 museum shops where the traditional arts and souvenirs lovers could buy items made by the contemporary folk craftsmen and artists in Romania. The museum shops offer to the visitors various traditional items (folk costumes, popttery recipients, cups, plates, textile fabrics tablecloths and towels, traditional hat, icons on wood and on glass etc.) rigorously selected by the scientific museum staff.

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Tactile Exhibition

The tactile exhibition “Touch and Understand – the Tactile Message of the Traditional Peasant Objects” was made in the year 2009 having the support of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund within the project “Equal Changes in the Access to Culture”.

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M.E.T. în ”Muzee din România”

Muzeul nostru a fost inclus în cel mai recent blog al editurii internaționale Twinkl intitulat „Muzee din România”. Citiți mai multe despre noi în articolul dedicat Muzeului Etnografic al Transilvaniei.

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