
May 12-November 27, 2023, Casa Argintarului from Bistrița-Năsăud (Str. Dornei, no. 5), Bistrița-Năsăud Museum Complex – collaborative exhibition
On May 12, 2023 - at Casa Argintarului in Bistrita - the opening of the temporary exhibition took place The art of Transylvanian pewter (16th-19th centuries). Function and iconography, organized by the Bistriţa-Năsăud Museum Complex and the National Museum of Transylvanian History in Cluj-Napoca.
The exhibition presents 49 cultural goods from the collection of pewter objects of the National History Museum of Transylvania to the Bistriţa public. The collection is made up of more than 200 cultural goods, which come from purchases and donations from the last decades of the XNUMXth century - the beginning of the XNUMXth century. The most significant acquisitions were made by the Society of the Ardelean Museum in Cluj from renowned collectors of the time, among whom we mention: Adolf Resch from Braşov, Adolf Csallner from Bistriţa, Benő Grünblatt, respectively Albert Biró from Sibiu. Other valuable pewter objects arrived in the MNIT heritage through donations made by the guilds of Cluj and various Protestant parishes in Transylvania to the Society of the Ardelean Museum. Most of the pieces were made in the main Transylvanian pewter centers in Sibiu, Sighişoara, Braşov and Cluj, being specific to the art of pewter from the period between the XNUMXth century and the beginning of the XNUMXth century.
Curator of the exhibition on behalf of MNIT: Dr. Melinda Mihály
Curators of the exhibition on behalf of CMBN: Dr. George Marinescu, Alexandra Giurgea
The exhibition is open from May 12 to August 29, 2023, at Casa Argintarului in Bistrița-Năsăud (Str. Dornei, no. 5) and can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday between 10 a.m. and 18 p.m.