WE BRING THE MUSEUM TO YOU!
This project is aimed at students from rural areas. We aimed to make the collections of cultural goods from our heritage known and accessible to them, to arouse their curiosity and interest enough to want to visit the museum.
Thanks to those who were the first to say "YES!" of our project: Tureni High School, to the director Prof. Dr. Andreea Brașovan, to Mr. primary education teacher Gheorghe Sălăjan, to all teaching staff and students involved!
We were very happy with the openness with which they embraced this initiative and the entire collaboration!
MNIT team:
Diana Piru – museum educator and initiator of the project
Dana Gheorghe Şerban – cartoonist
Anca Bâlc - cartoonist
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QUEEN HYPOLITA AND HER AMAZONS I
We are starting registrations for the second activity within the museum education project carried out in partnership with the HaiHui Association under the words: "Apoikia - Home away from home". The theme of the activity is: "Queen Hypolita and her Amazons".
We meet on Tuesday, April 16, at 16 pm in the space related to the "Overseas Greeks" Exhibition (second floor).
The team made up of Monica Bodea (museographer), Mariana-Cristina Popescu (museographer) and Luminița Bratu (primary teacher) will welcome you with history, stories and... as usual, surprises!
Appointments: 0745392935 (Monica); 0748989347 (Luminita).
Available places: 10 (the activities are aimed at children aged between 6 and 11).
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The Amazons were a tribe of warrior women from the northern Black Sea, first mentioned in Greek mythology. They are said to have been the daughters of Ares, the god of war. Heracles, at the behest of King Eurystheus, was sent to fetch the enchanted girdle of Queen Hippolyta (Queen of the Amazons). Valiant Hippolyta and proud Antiope ruled over the Amazons. The girls were roughly prepared to become Amazons. Accounts of female warriors also exist in China, North and West Africa, but nowhere like the Greeks. The Amazons reportedly threatened Athens five times. A victory over the Amazons had come to be more celebrated than a victory over the Persians.
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GEPIDAE. THE MUREŞU VALLEY IN THE AGE OF EARLY MIGRATIONS
November 16, 2023 – June 30, 2024, Târgu Mureș Citadel, Mureș County Museum
The exhibition presents the period between the 35th and XNUMXth centuries BC in the middle Mureș valley, with a special look at the area of the city of Târgu Mureș. The National History Museum of Transylvania participates with XNUMX pieces, from archaeological excavations in the area.
The main purpose of the exhibition "GEPIDAE. The Mureș Valley in the era of early migrations", organized by the Mureș County Museum in collaboration with the National History Museum of Transylvania, is the presentation of the results of recent field research that revealed in Ernei (Mureș county) a cemetery from the 35th century p. Chr. The discoveries here are presented in a wider historical and archaeological framework, emphasizing the history of the Middle Mureș area between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries BC. A total of XNUMX pieces from MNIT's heritage were borrowed from archaeological excavations old from Sântana de Mureș (XNUMXth century), Morești (XNUMXth century), Cipău (XNUMXth century) and Band (XNUMXth–XNUMXth century).
Organizers: Mureș County Museum, National History Museum of Transylvania
Curators: Berecki Sándor (MJM), Gál Szilárd Sándor (MJM), Dobos Alpár (MNIT).
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MNIT PARTICIPATES IN THE EXHIBITION "DACIA. L'ULTIMA FRONTIERA DELLA ROMANITÀ"
November 2023 – April 2024, National Roman Museum in Rome (Diocletian Baths).
About 1000 pieces from 47 museums in the country have been gathered in an event exhibition, the opening of which is just taking place in Rome: "Dacia. L'ultima frontiera della romanità", at the National Roman Museum in Rome (Diocletian Baths). The event marks a double anniversary for the Romanian-Italian bilateral relationship: 15 years since the signing of the consolidated strategic partnership between Romania and Italy and 150 years since the establishment of Romania's first diplomatic agency in Italy.
The project is designed and coordinated by the National History Museum of Romania, under the auspices of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, carried out in partnership with the Romanian Embassy in Italy, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Romanian Cultural Institute through the Accademia di Romania, benefiting from support from the Romanian Ministry of National Defense.
The exhibition is organized under the High Patronage of the President of Romania and the President of Italy and the MNIT representative at the opening is the manager Mark Felix.
The National History Museum of Transylvania participates in the exhibition with very important pieces from the Roman era and with a treasure dating from the era of migrations, discovered in the tombs of Gepid princesses, in Cluj-Polus. The first piece of the exhibition in Rome is one of the MNIT collection, unique in the world, namely a IV century Roman ballista, discovered in Orșova, within a late Roman fortification, in a corner tower, and which was also exhibited within the exhibition "Limes. The frontiers of the Roman Empire in Romania" (see the virtual tour of the exhibition here: https://www.mnit.ro/turlimes/). More precisely, it is about some components from a medium-sized ballista: one of the two elements (KAMBESTRION), into which the spring and the upper frame (KAMARION) of the ballista were inserted.
Based on these parts, some German specialists recreated it on a 1:1 scale.
The importance of the Romanian LIMES on the territory of Romania is gaining more and more recognition in the European context. In this sense, the manager Felix Marcu, the project coordinator Limes – The borders of the Roman Empire in Romania, will participate on Thursday, November 23, in Paris, at ICOMOS-UNESCO, to support the nomination file of the Romanian LIMES from the territory of Romania in the UNESCO heritage.
The exhibition "Dacia. L'ultima frontiera della romanità" will be open at the National Roman Museum in Rome until April 2024 and "is the largest and most valuable exhibition project of the last 25 years dedicated to the civilization of the Getae and Dacians, the Roman one as well as the civilizations of the first migrants in the area north of the Danube, in the period between VII BC and the end of the century VII BC." (MNIR)
- Published in PAST EXHIBITIONS
"THE MUMMY" - THE RITUAL OF EMBALMENT
Friday, November 17, at 15 p.m., we open the eleventh (penultimate) papyrus!
The activity is part of the museum education project carried out in partnership with the Association HaiHui between words: "The 12 papyri. From Life to Immortality in Ancient Egypt". The theme of the activity is: "The mummy - the embalming ritual".
We meet at 15 p.m., in the space related to the "Gods and Mortals in Ancient Egypt" Exhibition (XNUMXst floor).
The team made up of Monica Bodea (museographer) and Luminița Bratu (teacher. primary teacher) will welcome you with stories, history and ....as usual with surprises!
Appointments: 0745392935 Monica; 0748989347 Luminita.
Available places: 10 (the activities are aimed at children aged between 6 and 11).
Mummification was the way the Egyptians tried to preserve the human body intact for eternity. Not only human bodies were mummified, but also the bodies of animals.
An important piece in the exhibition, the mummified human body belongs to a man between 30 and 40 years old, with a relatively high height – 170 cm.
The mummy comes from Gamhud, in Middle Egypt, having been discovered in the Hungarian archaeological mission of 1907, financed by Fülöp Back. The mummy dates from the Ptolemaic Era, c. II-I BC Both the coffin and the textile covering covering the mummy show painted scenes that can be attributed to the same craftsman. The painted scenes and motifs illustrate moments from the embalming ritual and have the role of ensuring the rebirth of the deceased in the afterlife.
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"CLUJ MEDICAL SCHOOL. HISTORY AND NEWS"
November 8 – December 10, 2023, 10×10 B-dul. Heroes
A new exhibition on the "10×10" Installation, a new local history. This time, of the Cluj medical school. 
The photography exhibition takes place in the context in which, at the beginning of December, the "Iuliu Haţieganu" UMF Days (ZUMF), an event with tradition, which takes place at the end of each year, will take place. This year, ZUMF will take place between December 4-8, 2023.
Please never get any fines HERE
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FROM THE PRIVACY OF THE INTERIORS OF ANOTHER TIME
Exhibition period: November 1 – November 15, 2023, Iulius Mall
This is a new MNIT brand exhibition, which aims to familiarize the public with the most beautiful pieces from the furniture collection of the National History Museum of Transylvania.
Among the cultural treasures owned by MNIT, the furniture collection holds a special, well-defined place. The pieces in this collection illustrate the most important artistic currents in the history of European cabinetmaking: Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Empire, Louis Philippe or Victorian styles.
In chronological order, the pieces of furniture from the collection of the Cluj Museum of History are arranged between the 16th and 20th centuries. Regarding their provenance, it can be appreciated that most of them belong to the cultural space of Central Europe. Whether they were made in the workshops of local craftsmen or commissioned from prestigious production centers in Hungary, Austria or Germany, they highlight the tastes, artistic canons and, ultimately, the common cultural identity of an area of civilization which stretches from the Alps to the Carpathian Mountains. A certain sobriety of forms, a more accentuated functionalism, "provincial", more modest adaptations of some established motifs - represent the characteristic notes of the furniture that gave shape to the interiors once inhabited by our Transylvanian ancestors.
Exhibition curator: Melinda Mitu
Design: Török Károly
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THE PHARAOH – GOD INCARNATE
October 17, 2023, 15.00 p.m., MNIT
The tenth activity within the museum education project carried out in partnership with the HaiHui Association among the words: "The 12 papyri. From life to immortality in Ancient Egypt", has as its theme: "The pharaoh - God incarnate". We meet on Tuesday, October 17, at 15:00 in the space related to the "Gods and Mortals in Ancient Egypt" Exhibition (XNUMXst floor).
The team made up of Monica Bodea (museographer) and Luminița Bratu (teacher. primary teacher) will welcome you with history, stories and.... as usual with surprises!
Appointments: 0745392935 Monica; 0748989347 Luminita
Available places: 15 (the activities are aimed at children aged between 6 and 11)
A particularly important place in the Egyptian pantheon was occupied by the pharaoh. According to mythology, Egypt was first ruled by the gods, with Ra himself being the first pharaoh. The pharaohs of the historical dynasties, the successors of the ancient divine dynasties, were themselves gods, in their double capacity as sons and heirs of the gods. Each pharaoh was born by supernatural conception, as the son of an earth woman and the god Ra. The ascension of the pharaoh to the throne was likened to the ascension of the sun to the throne of Horus. The gods themselves took part in the coronation ceremony, purifying the new king and giving him divine power. One of the ceremonies consisted of the pharaoh entering the temple, followed by embracing the statue of the god, an act considered to be a continuous transmission of divine power. After death, the pharaoh was officially worshiped in a temple built during his lifetime.
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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 EXHIBITION OF THE TRANSYLVANIAN PEWTER ART (XVI-XIX CENTURIES) IS EXTENDED
We are happy to announce that the temporary exhibition 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 from Cluj-Napoca and hosted at the Silversmith's House in Bistrița-Năsăud (Str. Dornei, no. 5), the Bistriţa-Năsăud Museum Complex extends until the date of November 27 2023.
If you want to know more about the exhibition:
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