December 1, 2023 – January 28, 2024, XNUMXnd floor of the National History Museum of Transylvania
The temporary exhibition organized on the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the Great Union of 1918 is centered on the activity of the Romanian National Senate in Cluj, the first democratic body of the Romanians here, established on November 2, 1918 under the presidency of the lawyer Amos Frâncu, followed by Emil Hațieganu. In the exhibition, the public will be able to see the tricolor scarf that Professor Ioachim Crăciun wore to the Great Assembly in Alba Iulia, vintage documents and photographs, publications of the period, medals, weapons and military equipment that belonged to the national guards, alongside informative texts that follow the path of the establishment and activity of this body of Romanian political power since the fall of 1918.
In the three months of its existence (Nov. 2, 1918 – Jan. 31, 1919), the achievements of the Cluj Senate were special and they are part of the series of events intended to implement the self-determination decision of the Romanians in Transylvania, in the spirit of the documents issued by The Central Romanian National Council in Arad and the Resolution of the Alba Iulia Assembly of December 1, 1918. Overcoming all the obstacles encountered, the Senate immediately proclaimed the right of Romanians from the city and its surroundings to national self-determination and then established itself as a section of the Central Romanian National Council from Arad. He also organized the Romanian national guard from the city and county and facilitated the participation of the 39 democratically elected Cluj delegates in the Great National Assembly in Alba Iulia to vote on the Union Resolution. In the citadel of the Great Union, through their voice, the people of Cluj expressed their adherence to the great historical act carried out here, and many of them were entrusted with high positions of public dignity in the Governing Council of Transylvania or in other bodies of the Romanian central and local administration who changed the fate of the province in the first years after the Union. (Dr. Ovidiu Muntean, curator of the exhibition)
