THE BELLE ÉPOQUE WOMAN: BEAUTY AND ELEGANCE
October 10 – November 20, 2024, National Museum of Banat, Timișoara
We are happy to take part in this exhibition project organized by the National Museum of Banat, together with the National Museum of the Alba Iulia Union, the Museum of History, Ethnography and Fine Art Lugoj and from the private collection of Cristian-Oliviu Gaidos.
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FROM VESZPRÉM TO CLUJ – MEMORIAL OBJECTS OF THE MIKÓ FAMILY
International temporary exhibition organized as part of the Hungarian Cultural Days in Cluj, 15th edition (August 18-25, 2024)
The exhibition can be visited free until the 21 September 2024, at the headquarters the Reformed Museum of Transylvania (Cluj-Napoca, Avram Iancu Square, no. 14), of Monday to Friday, between 10am and 14pm.
MNIT participated as an organizer in the exhibition that presents over 150 cultural goods (paintings, documents, photographs, clothing and decorative items) from a period between the end of the XNUMXth century and the beginning of the XNUMXth century, goods which belonged to Count Imre Mikó, as well as his wife, children or other relatives by alliance.
The exhibition was organized to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the death of Countess Mária Rhédey (1811-1849), wife of Count Imre Mikó (1805-1876). The latter was a politician from the Transylvanian aristocracy, governor of Transylvania (in 1848, respectively between the years 1860-1861), as well as minister of transport and public works (between the years 1867-1870), within the Andrássy government. Among the special merits of Imre Mikó is the founding of the Society of the Ardelean Museum in Cluj (in 1859).
Nowadays, a good part of the cultural treasure bequeathed by the Mikó family is in the heritage of some institutions in Romania and Hungary, such as the "Lucian Blaga" Central University Library in Cluj-Napoca, the Cluj County Directorate of the National Archives of Romania, The National Museum of Transylvanian History in Cluj-Napoca, the Veszprém County Directorate of the National Archives of Hungary and the "Laczkó Dezső" Museum in Veszprém.
Organisers:
- Liszt Institute, Hungarian Cultural Center in Sfântu Gheorghe (Covasna county)
- "Laczkó Dezső" Museum – Veszprém (Hungary)
- Veszprém County Directorate of the National Archives of Hungary – Veszprém
- The National History Museum of Transylvania - Cluj-Napoca
- "Lucian Blaga" Central University Library - Cluj-Napoca
- The Reformed Museum of Transylvania - Cluj-Napoca
Partner institutions:
- The Reformed Diocese of Transylvania - Cluj-Napoca
- Consulate General of Hungary in Miercurea Ciuc
- Consulate General of Hungary in Cluj-Napoca
Exhibition curator: Gréta Somogyi, researcher at the Institute and Museum of Military History of the Hungarian Ministry of Defense
On behalf of MNIT, they collaborated:
Melinda Mitu, as cocurator,
Andrea Demjén, Ágnes Alföldy-Găzdac, Ștefania Dogărel and Ovidiu Muntean, museographers,
Ioana Cova, Ana Maria Gologan, Diana Bindea and Beatrix Magó, conservatives,
Mihaela Chetrari, Laura Troșan, Cornelia Rotariu, Sabin Grapini and Radu Cordoș, restaurateurs,
Sergiu Odenie, photographer.
Additional contacts: Melinda Mitu (0749-646362)
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10×10 – BATRA- RETROSPECTIVE
October 2 - 15, 2023
10 years of BATRA (Transilvania Architecture Biennale) on "10×10"
The installation on Bulevardul Eroilor hosts a retrospective of the Transilvania Architecture Biennale with the first 5 editions.
The 6th begins on October 20, 2023.
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THE MEMORY OF PETŐFI AND THE RELICS OF THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION AND LIBERATION STRUGGLE OF 1848-49
from August 14, 2023, the Reformed Museum of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca
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MNIT is co-organizer of the temporary exhibition "Memory of Petőfi and the relics of the Hungarian revolution and liberation struggle of 1848-1849", opened on August 14, 2023, at the Reformed Museum of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca. The exhibition was organized on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution and struggle for independence of 1848-49 and the 200th anniversary of the birth of the poet Sándor Petőfi.
In this event, MNIT is present with approx. 50 museum pieces from the collections of the Museum of Relics of the 1848-49 Revolution in Cluj. This museum was a Hungarian cultural institution established in 1892 with the aim of collecting objects, documents and historical data related to the Hungarian revolution. A significant part of the heritage of the Museum of Relics of the Revolution from 1848-49 ended up in the administration of the National History Museum of Transylvania in 1976.
The exhibition showcases objects of daily use belonging to both great personalities - Lajos Kossuth, Iosif Bem, Sándor Teleki, Áron Gábor - and to lesser-known or even anonymous characters, whose destinies were closely linked to the events of 1848-49.
Organizers: The National History Museum of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, respectively the Szekler National Museum and the Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center, in Sfântu Gheorghe
Partners: Haáz Rező Museum in Odorheiu Secuiesc.
Exhibition curators: Melinda Mitu, MNIT museographer and Zsuzsanna Szebeni, director of the Liszt Institute, Sfântu Gheorghe
They also collaborated: Ovidiu Muntean, Ana Gologan (from MNIT) and Horváth T. Iringó (from the Reformed Museum in Cluj-Napoca)
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IN MEMORY OF GYARMATHY ZSIGÁNÉ
August 16 – September 24, 2023, Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania
During the Hungarian Cultural Days, MNIT collaborated with the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania for the exhibition In memory of Gyarmathy Zsigáné, offering copies after photographs that represent Mrs. Zsigmond Gyarmathy, born Etelka Hory (1845-1910), "The Great Lady of Călata", a prolific writer of the time, the creator of the domestic textile industry in the Călata area.
The exhibition was organized by the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania, curator: Tekla Tötszegi, director, museographer, in collaboration with the National Archives-Cluj County Directorate, the National History Museum of Transylvania and the "Lucian Blaga" Central University Library.
On behalf of MNIT collaborated: Melinda Mitu, MNIT museographer.
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THE LITTLE ARCHEOLOGIST
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The "Little Archaeologist" summer school in Costești, Hunedoara, an activity within the museum education project "Capital of Dacia - living museum of European cultural heritage", is currently being held. The participating students come from schools in Orăștioara de Sus, Beriu and other schools in Hunedoara county.
We try to introduce them to archaeology, to familiarize them with its basic notions, with the role, purpose and methods used in archaeological research in general, as well as with the major archaeological discoveries in the Orăștiei Mountains. What you see in the pictures is the dedication with which the students created their badges. We divided them into 3 teams and that's how they will compete until the end of the camp. We have wolves, bears and bison, we no longer have simple students. The force is on our side.
Good luck too congratulations colleagues from MNIT involved in the project: Cristian Roman and Dana Gheorghe-Şerban!









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150 YEARS OF MEDICAL EDUCATION IN CLUJ
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30 June 2023 – 14 May 2024, Museum of the Cluj Medical School, str. Emil Isac no. 13 from Cluj-Napoca – collaborative exhibition.
In June 2023, the National History Museum of Transylvania responded to the invitation of the "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Cluj-Napoca to collaborate in organizing the temporary exhibition 150 years of medical education at Cluj. This was varnished on June 30, 2023, on the occasion of the inauguration ceremony of the Cluj Medical School Museum.
The National History Museum of Transylvania is present in this exhibition with five cultural assets of great historical value, such as: a steel and brass round seal of the Faculty of Medicine of the Royal Hungarian University in Cluj (from 1872); a stamp with a wooden handle of the Medical Section of the Ardelean Museum Society in Cluj (from 1879); a brass seal, without a handle, of the former Royal Medical and Surgical Institute in Cluj (end of the 1903th century), as well as two badges. They were issued on the occasion of the XXXII Congress of Hungarian doctors and naturalists in Cluj, from XNUMX, respectively for the Association of Medical Students of the Royal Hungarian University of Science "Francisc Iosif" in Cluj.
Curator: Dr. Oana Habor
The Cluj Medical School Museum is located on Str. Emil Isac no. 13 from Cluj-Napoca and can be visited by appointment.
The exhibition will be open until May 14, 2024.





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PRO PATRIMONIO. PRESERVING AND SAVING THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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March – July 2023 – project implemented by the Museum of Ethnography Brașov – project in which MNIT was a partner
Project implemented by the Museum of Ethnography Brașov in partnership with museum institutions and cultural NGOs: the National History Museum of Transylvania, the Bran National Museum, the Association of Conservators and Restorers from Romania, the First Romanian School Museum and the ERMIS Association Brașov implement during the period March - July 2023 the project "Pro patrimonio. Preserving and saving the heritage of others", co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN).
The project presented innovative technologies in the field of curative and preventive conservation of heritage assets from museum collections. During the project, workshops and interactive workshops were held in which the treatment facility in an anoxic environment (deprived of oxygen) owned by the Museum of Ethnography Brașov was presented and an exchange of information and best practices in the field was carried out conservation and restoration among specialists from participating institutions.
The project sought to identify innovative solutions for the conservation of material heritage in a local and European context and will end by organizing an exhibition with the cultural goods that were the object of curative conservation, with the help of the treatment facility in the anoxic environment, during the implementation of the project.
The project brought to the attention of collection owners the importance of preserving organic heritage objects through new, non-invasive, restorer-safe technologies. The owners of the collections will learn, through the implementation of the project, information about the technology of the treatment facility in anoxic environment and about a new cultural service offered by the Museum of Ethnography Brașov to other museums and collections, even those under private law.
The project "Pro patrimonio. Conserving and saving the heritage of others", co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN), is worth 110.940 lei.
In the framework of the project, several other events took place.
Conservation workshop "Preventive conservation: objects of an organic nature (textiles)"
04.05.-05.05.2023, National History Museum of Transylvania
Participants: Brașov Ethnography Museum, Transylvania National History Museum, Bran National Museum, Association of Romanian Conservators and Restorers, First Romanian School Museum and ERMIS Association
The participants, interested in the theme of the workshop, were familiarized with the facility for the treatment of organic heritage goods from the museum collections, carried out in an anoxic environment. During the presentations, the importance of curative and preventive conservation was highlighted and the results of the application of curative technology in an anoxic environment (deprived of oxygen) on heritage objects and textiles were presented.


Conservation workshop "Preventive conservation: objects of an organic nature (paper support)"
13.05-4.05.2023, Săcel Museum of Ethnography
TAKE PART: The Brașov Ethnography Museum, the National Museum of Transylvanian History, the Bran National Museum, the Romanian Association of Conservators and Restorers, the First Romanian School Museum and the ERMIS Association
The workshop offered owners of heritage objects, namely collectors, valuable information on the main causes of damage to organic heritage objects, but also information and recommendations regarding the preservation, packaging or storage of the owned objects. The workshop created a bridge between the scientific, institutionalized environment and the private environment, in order to provide access to the knowledge of specific techniques, absolutely necessary for saving cultural values.


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THE FORCE FIELDS OF MIKLÓS BÁNFFY
from May 28, 2023, Bánffy Castle, Bonțida – collaborative exhibition
On May 28, 2023, at Bánffy Castle in Bonțida, the second stage of the opening of the international temporary exhibition entitled The force fields of Miklós Bánffy / Bánffy Miklós erőterei. The exhibition was organized by the Transylvania Trust Foundation, in collaboration with several cultural institutions from Romania and Hungary, among the partner institutions being MNIT.
The exhibition was organized to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the writer and polymath Miklós Bánffy (1873-1950), the author of the novel Trilogy Transylvania, the last owner of the Bonțida castle.
"The exhibition offers a unique experience to visitors by combining traditional elements with digital contents and elements that they can try. The visitor explores the Count's personality through photographs, projections, art installations, panels and interactive elements." - we can read on the web page of the Department for Interethnic Relations within the General Secretariat of the Government, https://dri.gov.ro/w/campurile-de-forta-ale-lui-miklos-banffy/
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THE ART OF THE TRANSYLVANIAN PEWTER (SIXTEENTH-XIX CENTURIES). FUNCTION AND ICONOGRAPHY
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.
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