May 16-July 16, 2024
The National History Museum of Transylvania and the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania invite you to the opening of the exhibition The memorandum of the Romanians from Transylvania and the trial in Cluj - 130 years, which will take place on Thursday, May 16, 2024, at 13 p.m., at the headquarters Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania from Memorandumul str., no. 21, Cluj-Napoca.
The exhibition was organized with the aim of marking the 130th anniversary of the memorandumist movement of the Romanians in Transylvania (1892-1894), which ended with the trial and conviction of the memorandumists in the trial that took place between May 7-25, 1894 in the Reduta Palace in Cluj (today the seat of the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania).
Cultural assets related to the Romanian national movement in Transylvania will be exhibited: the personal items of Dr. Ioan Rațiu, the office bag, the oil portraits of the memorist and his wife Emilia, vintage photographs, correspondence, lithographs, the printed copy of Memorandum, the documents of the meeting of the Romanian National Party on March 25, 1892, where the date of sending the act to the emperor and the composition of the delegation that was to go to Vienna was decided, etc.
Through the content, and especially through the movement generated by it, Memorandum remains the most important political action of the Romanians from the second half of the 19th century.
The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalog (Romanian-English) drawn up in special graphic conditions, which contains the description of the exhibited pieces as well as the full text of Memorandum filed at the Imperial Chancellery in Vienna on 28 May 1892.
Coordinator: Dr. Ovidiu Muntean, National History Museum of Transylvania
For more information: https://www.muzeul-etnografic.ro/ro/articole/expozitii/memorandul-romanilor-din-transilvania-si-procesul-de-la-cluj-1892-1894-130-de-ani
