The Transylvanian
Museum
of Ethnography

100 years - 100 de artefacts

15.02.2022

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Șuba (long and wide coat, lined with fur and worn by men) is a clothing item whose practical and symbolic functions are equally important. For the cold period, it provides thermal comfort and protection against rain, snow or wind. On the other hand, “șuba” is a piece of clothing that communicates information about the social status of its wearer, while also providing an imposing look. In Hațeg

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100 years - 100 artefacts

04.02.2022

Keepers of Tradition

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One of the first objects to enter the museum’s collection is the distaff with inventory no. 18. Being an often used piece, at home, during a bee, on the field, even on the street, while walking, the distaff became an object with an important social role, being the first serious gift made for the young woman by the young man she was engaging with. This is also the main reason for the higher

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100 years, 100 artefacts

28.01.2022

Keepers of Tradition

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The glass negative was made by Romulus Vuia in 1912, in Ruși, Bretea Română, Hunedoara county, the ethnographic area of Hațeg Country. In the foreground, there is a man dressed up in a long, white shirt, white wide underpants and a dark, straight coat with a lapel and side pockets. In the background, there is a white masonry church, with a rectangular plan, shingled roof, in two waters, with a

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100 years – 100 artifacts

28.01.2022

Keepers of Tradition

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The hood is one of the most archaic pieces of the folk costume from Hațeg country. Worn both by men and women, the piece covers the wearer’s head and back, but it’s also used on the shoulders, as a backpack. The material of the piece is made of warp and wool beat, woven in four threads, later slightly twisted, thus acquiring a less dense cloth appearance. It’s made by the long bending of a

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100 years – 100 artifacts

21.01.2022

Keepers of Tradition

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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

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The Hungarian Culture Day celebrated at the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography

21.01.2022

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The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, public cultural institution operating under the authority of the Cluj County Council, celebrates the Hungarian Culture Day with a photo album, representing embroidered textiles. The textile pieces presented in this album, dating from the second half of the 19th century, are part of the museum’s textile collection and were made and used by the Hungarian

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ROMANIA UNIVERSALIS Chamber recital dedicated to the National Culture Day

13.01.2022

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The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, public cultural institution operating under the authority of the Cluj County Council, invites you on Tuesday, January 18th, 2022, from 6 pm, to ROMANIA UNIVERSALIS - chamber recital dedicated to the National Culture Day. The event will take place in the Reduta Hall, at the museum’s headquarters, on 21, Memorandum street. ROMANIA UNIVERSALIS is an original

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“WORDS AND THINGS”. THE DRAWINGS OF THE CORRESPONDENTS TO THE INDIRECT LINGUISTIC SURVEYS OF THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE MUSEUM

10.01.2022

Exhibitions

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EXHIBITION EVENT AT THE TRANSYLVANIAN MUSEUM OF ETHNOGRAPHY ORGANIZED ON THE OCCASION OF THE NATIONAL CULTURE DAY 2022. The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, public cultural institution operating under the authority of the Cluj County Council, invites you on Friday, January 14th 2022, at 1 pm, to the opening of the exhibition “Words and Things”. The drawings of the correspondents to the

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The launch of the selective catalogue “Saving the Culture of the Other. The research of the Romanian traditional blouse with ornamental stitching (altiță) from the Hârtibaciu Valley” and of the exhibition with the same title on November 24, 2021

23.11.2021

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Sibiu, 24 November 2021, 6:00 p.m. – The opening of the exhibition “Saving the Culture of the Other. The research of the Romanian traditional blouse with ornamental stitching (altiță) from the Hârtibaciu Valley”. Live online on Facebook, November 24, 2021, 6 p.m. – The launch of the selective catalogue “Saving the Culture of the Other. The research of the Romanian traditional blouse with

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Innovative exhibition – The Church of Horea

23.11.2021

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The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, public cultural institution functioning under the authority of the Cluj County Council, invites you to attend on November 25 this year, from 4 p.m., the opening of the exhibition The Church of Horea - a heritage for the future. The exhibition is organized within the Project entitled “the Church of Horea - a heritage for the future. Valorizing an 18th

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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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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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