The Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania ( ro, Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei; hu, Erdélyi néprajzi múzeum) is situated in

Cluj-Napoca ; hu, kincses város) , official_name=Cluj-Napoca , native_name= , image_skyline= , subdivision_type1 = Counties of Romania, County , subdivision_name1 = Cluj County , subdivision_type2 = Subdivisions of Romania, Status , subdivision_name2 ...

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. With a history of almost 100 years, the ''Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania'' is one of the first and greatest of its kind in Romania. It has two exhibition sections, one of which is to be found in downtown '' Reduta Palace'' (21, Memorandumului Street), while the other exhibition section is the open-air ''Romulus Vuia Park'' situated on the city's north-west side, in ''Hoia Forest''. Kolozsvár Redut

History

''Muzeul Etnografic al Ardealului'' was founded June 16, 1922.

Collection

The museum has a collection of more than 50,000 objects reflecting the occupations, the habits and the life style of the Transylvanian rural population. Part of this collection is to be found in the Reduta Palace while the rest of the objects are in the open-air section.

Reduta Palace

The collection here presented is a representative selection of the items and clothes used in rural everyday life. Besides, Reduta Palace also houses a collection of some 50,000 photographs and some 5,000 diapositives. The library of the museum has some 12,000 scholarly journals and specialized magazines.

The Ethnographic Park "Romulus Vuia"

''Parcul Etnografic Romulus Vuia'', the open-air section of the museum. It opened to the public on April 12, 1929, which makes it the first open-air museum in

. However, the park is closed to the public from the beginning of November to the end of April. The most ancient objects here exhibited date from 1678. The park's main collection is composed of: * 13 traditional

farm A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used fo ...

s with some 90 buildings collected from several transylvanian ethnographical regions: Ţara Moţilor, Ţara Năsăudului, Bistriţa, Câmpia Transilvaniei, Maramureş,

Székely Land The Székely Land or Szeklerland ( hu, Székelyföld, ; ro, Ținutul Secuiesc and sometimes ; german: Szeklerland; la, Terra Siculorum) is a historic and ethnographic area in Romania, inhabited mainly by Székelys, a subgroup of Hungarians. ...

, Ţara Zarandului, Podgoria Albă, Oaş Country, Gurghiu, Ţara Călatei,

Bran Bran, also known as miller's bran, is the hard outer layers of Cereal, cereal grain. It consists of the combined aleurone and pericarp. Corn (maize) bran also includes the pedicel (tip cap). Along with cereal germ, germ, it is an integral pa ...

* 34 rural technical installations (mills...) * 5

workshop Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room, rooms or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods. Workshops were the only ...

s * 3 wooden churches * a wooden carved cemetery gate.

Gallery

Image:Cizer.portal.SE.jpg, Door of Cizer church Image:Cizer.bis de lemn interior nava E.jpg, Interior of Cizer church Image:Petrindu.bis lemn.SE.jpg, Petrindu church in Romulus Vuia park Image:Petrindu.bis lemn.portal nava.jpg, Interior door of Petrindu church Image:Petrindu.bis lemn.naos E.jpg, Interior of Petrindu church Image:Chirales.SE.2002.jpg, Chiraleş church in Romulus Vuia park Image:Chirales. portal interior.2002.jpg, Interior door of Chiraleş church Image:Chirales. int nava.2002.jpg, Interior of Chiraleş church

External links

Official site of the museum

Bibliography

* Bodea Gheorghe. ''Clujul vechi și nou''. Cluj-Napoca, 2002 * Lukács József. ''Povestea oraşului-comoară. Scurtă istorie a Clujului şi monumentelor sale'' Cluj-Napoca : Apostrof, 2005. {{Authority control Museums in Cluj-Napoca Ethnographic museums in Romania Open-air museums in Romania