DECEMBER 1 FROM HOME
CLUJENI AND THE GREAT UNION OF 1918
The exhibition commemorates the completion of the Romanian state edifice through the Union of Transylvania with Romania proclaimed in Alba Iulia on December 1, 1918. At the same time, a series of personalities from Cluj, men and women, young and old, who contributed to the creation of the modern state of Romania, are evoked. a fact for which he fully deserves our knowledge, appreciation and gratitude.
The exhibition includes ten documentary panels with synthetic texts and images of pieces and documents from the museum's heritage. They illustrate a broad theme that includes the self-determination movement of the Romanians in Transylvania in the fall of 1918, the establishment in Cluj of the Romanian National Senate from Transylvania and the Romanian National Guard (November 2-3, 1918), the participation of Cluj delegates at the National Assembly in Alba Iulia from December 1, 1918, the entry of the Romanian army into Cluj (December 24, 1918) and the establishment the Romanian administration at the beginning of 1919.
The public who wants to know more about the events and happenings of those historic and dramatic days, more than a century ago, has the bilingual anniversary volume available at the museum stand Remembering the Great Union. Centenary 1918-2018. In addition to the exhibition catalog, here are also published notes written daily by Mrs. Sidonia Docan, secretary of the Romanian National Senate from Cluj, participant in the National Assembly in Alba Iulia, about which she notes:
"Alba Iulia, December 1 1918. In the morning, according to ancient tradition, religious service before the assembly. Huge world, picturesque groups of peasants from all lands. With great emotion and satisfaction I look at these proud and dignified figures, who endured so many trials and severe injustices, keeping their temperance and serenity."
Project coordinator: dr. Ovidiu Muntean











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I STARTED SUMMER SCHOOL
The museum education program "Crafts at the Museum - Learn a Craft in Three Days" debuted on June 24 with many engaging activities for our young visitors. Aimed at children between the ages of 10 and 14, the program gave them the opportunity to explore and better understand the museum's artefacts and the techniques by which they were created. We thought we'd show you what we've achieved between June 24 and July 12, 2024, and remind you that you can still sign up for our workshops, which will last until August 30, by accessing the link:
Those who accepted our invitation had the opportunity to get involved in various creative activities:
- two workshops were dedicated to the modeling of clay vessels:
- two workshops were dedicated to writing on clay tablets:
- two workshops were dedicated to ancient games:
- two workshops were dedicated to the manufacture of metal jewelry:
- two workshops were dedicated to models:
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MEETING OF THE WORKING GROUP CultHerit IN CLUJ
In June, the first meeting of the Steering Committee (SCOM) took place in Cluj, where the representatives of the 8 partners from the #CHIM cultural sector met and agreed on the key elements of the project.
One of the main objectives of the meeting was the official establishment of the project's Steering Committee.
The representative of the Lead Partner (LMP) presented the main features of the operation and organization of the Steering Committee (SCOM) and each partner nominated a member in the SCOM on behalf of the respective organization.
After that, the partners focused on the experiences accumulated so far in the functioning of stakeholder groups (key stakeholders' group – KSG) and all partners shortly introduced KSG in their country.
Adrian Lupaş and Mihai Bucurean, as representatives of AJOFM Bihor, provided an overview of the activity 1.2 Transnational analysis of employment practices which includes an overview of achievements, a presentation of the most important challenges and a preliminary outline of the results.
Thomas Philipp, KUPF representative, presented an Introduction to Activity 1.3. The transnational aspirational employment model. Thomas presented the main tasks related to the definition of the employment model, the presentation being followed by a session with a workshop format, a workshop in which all partners actively participated.
On the second day of the project meeting, the partners were asked to focus on the preparation of the first progress reports and together they discussed the project management focusing on the deliverables and planned results and discussed the next tasks related to the implementation of the activities.
After that, Marija Jurkić Flis, MUO representative and coordinator of communication activities, presented the latest developments related to communication, the project web page and why social media engagement matters. She also shared some tips and ideas with partners about social media presence, which will also be important for the future success of the project.
The meeting ended with conclusions and the partners agreed that the next meeting will be held in Belgrade in October.
This project is supported by the Interreg Danube Region Program, co-financed by the European Union
Photo credit: IMM, Zoltàn Szalontai
Project partners:
Iparművészeti Múzeum MAK – Museum of Applied Arts KUPF OÖ
AJOFM Bihor Republički zavod za zaštiti spomenica kulture Beograd
Međuopštni zavod za zaštiti spomenica kulture Subotica Uměleckoprůmyslové museum in Praze Републички завод за заштиту cultural-historical and natural nasљеђа
Raziskovalno Isobraževalno Središče Dvorec Rakičan
National Heritage Institute The National History Museum of Transylvania
Trade Union of Employees in Cultural Institutions, Belgrade, Serbia



CultHeRit – Identifying solutions for labor market disparities in the cultural heritage sector in the Danube region by improving accessibility for young professionals

The disparities on the labor market in the heritage sector are due to several causes. The attractiveness of a career in the cultural heritage sector has declined in recent decades, the main causes being low pay and a lack of innovative employment practices to counterbalance the modest financial reward. Also, the young graduates of some specialized universities are not prepared in accordance with the offer on the labor market, potential employers being thus forced to apply practices that reflect the special legal status of employees and the type of work in the cultural heritage sector.
Thus, the National History Museum of Transylvania is involved in the project CultHeRit – Identifying solutions for labor market disparities in the cultural heritage sector in the Danube region by improving accessibility for young professionals, within a partnership between 13 institutions and organizations from 8 countries, coordinated by the Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts [IMM] – project leader and the following partners: the Museum of Applied Arts [MAK] and the Cultural Platform of Upper Austria [KUPF ] – Austria; The National Heritage Institute [INP], the National Museum of Transylvanian History [MNIT] and the Bihor County Employment Agency [AJOFMBH] – Romania; Republican Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments [RIPCM], Subotica Intermunicipal Institute for the Protection of Historical Monuments [IPCMS] and the Trade Union of Employees in Cultural Institutions [SKS] – Serbia; Museum of Decorative Arts [UPM] – Czech Republic; Institute for the Protection of Cultural-Historical and Natural Heritage [IPC] – Bosnia and Herzegovina; Museum of Arts and Crafts [MUO] – Croatia; Research and Education Center "Mansion Rakičan" [RIS] – Slovenia. During 30 months (01.01.2024 – 30.06.2026), the partners aim to optimize the labor market by inducing positive changes in the employment practices currently applied in the cultural heritage sector. This will be achieved by defining and applying a model of employment in the cultural heritage institutions of the participating countries in the Danube region. By increasing access to the cultural heritage sector for young professionals, the CultHeRit project will contribute to slowing down and reversing the migration of young people with higher education and retaining skilled labor in the targeted institutions, while increasing the diversification of the sectoral workforce.
The objective of the project will be fulfilled through a series of specific activities:
- Carrying out the transnational analysis of employment practices in institutes and museums in the cultural heritage sector in the Danube region;
- Defining the general employment model for young professionals at the partnership level;
- Application of the model by hiring a young professional for 1 year in 10 institutions part of the project consortium;
- Evaluation and improvement of the applied model from three perspectives: of the young professional, the employer and external experts;
- Optimizing the general model of employment of young professionals to be used later at the regional level;
- Elaboration of the Transnational Study on access to jobs and the employment situation in institutes and museums in the cultural heritage sector;
- Elaboration of the Transnational Strategy regarding the improvement of access to jobs and the employment situation in institutes and museums in the cultural heritage sector;
- Running a visibility and advocacy campaign.
Among the topics addressed in the working group meetings will be: legal status and employment conditions, gender equality, access to jobs for people with disabilities and disadvantaged groups, the feasibility of solutions identified at the partnership level in a national context, etc. The members of the working group will contribute to the definition of a general and desirable employment model, to the development of recommendations during the testing of the employment model, to its adaptation and modification in order to make a real contribution to the improvement of the employment situation in the heritage sector, as and developing analyzes and collecting data.
The first stage of the project is dedicated to the elaboration the transnational analysis of employment practices by providing and collecting data based on the methodology developed within the consortium, which will aim to analyze the current conditions and dynamics of the labor market in the heritage sector. MNIT, in collaboration with the National Heritage Institute, will collect data on local employment practices to analyze relevant university programs as well as student expectations regarding employment in the cultural heritage sector.
Along with all other partners, our museum will identify desirable and at the same time viable solutions on a large scale for the recruitment, employment and retention of young professionals in the sector, thus contributing to the definition of a general model of their employment, applicable at the level of all the countries involved in the project.
After adapting to national regulations, the partners will test the applicability of the model by employment for 1 year of a recent graduate in one of the areas with a shortage of personnel, who will work under the guidance of a mentor.
Through the experience of this stage, MNIT will contribute to finalizing the employment modele and will transfer elements of it to the internal practices in the field of human resources.
Ultimately, the CultHeRit project strives to ensure that the cultural heritage sector becomes and remains an attractive workplace, offering careers aimed at the professional development of young employees, and aims to contribute to the retention of the skilled workforce by increasing at the same time occupational and age diversity in the sector.
Project CultHeRit – Identifying solutions for labor market disparities in the cultural heritage sector in the Danube region by improving accessibility for young professionals is part of the Danube Transnational Cooperation Program, a financing instrument of Interreg that aims to improve the application of regional development policies and programs in the Danube area. The project will be implemented between January 2024 and June 2026 and has a total budget of €2.043.590, of which €1.634.872 is non-refundable funding.

THE YEAR HAS GOOD SIGNS!
The first meeting in 2024 with the students of the 4 schools involved in the project Dialogue platform between MNIT and teenagers - Our Museum / Your Museum – C"Gheorghe Șincai" National College Cluj-Napoca, "Nicolae Bălcescu" Theoretical High School Cluj-Napoca, Energetic Technical High School Cluj and "Ștefan Pascu" Apahida High School it was a real one brainstorming. I challenged the teenagers to decide what concept they want to focus on, the resources they want to use, so that in the end they can say that they have a deeper insight into Egyptian culture, through their own approaches and inspiration from , the "story" of the artifacts in the exhibition,,Gods and mortals of ancient Egypt" (ZMEA). As a first step, starting from the thematic exhibition of MNIT, students titled their own project "Egypt - mystery, science, art", project that will end this month May with an age-specific exhibition and how they interact with each other, with us, with the artifacts and with the history of this important universal culture. The next step, decanting all the ideas "put on paper" at this first meeting and establishing the common exhibition concept. We're coming back!




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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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PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION: ORGANIC OBJECTS
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CONSERVATION WORKSHOP
04-05.05.2023, National History Museum of Transylvania
Participants - Brașov Ethnography Museum, Transylvania National History Museum, Bran National Museum, Association of Conservators and Restorers from Romania, 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.

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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 GODS – ABOVE ALL
We are starting registrations for the sixth activity within 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: "Gods - Above All". We meet Thursday, June 29, 13:30 p.m in the space related to the "Gods and Mortals in Ancient Egypt" Exhibition (1st 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 10).
The ancient Egyptians believed in several gods, the religion being polytheistic. Egyptian mythology is, along with Sumerian and Babylonian, among the oldest in the world. Beliefs and rituals are based on the interaction of the ancient Egyptians with a large number of deities (over 60), gods who had certain characteristics and attributes. The most important and revered gods were: Ra - the sun god, Osiris - the god of the afterlife, Set – the evil god, Isis – the mother-sister goddess, Horus – the falcon god, Sobek – the crocodile god of the Nile, Anubis – jackal god of death and mummification, Bastet – the cat goddess, Thoth – the ibis-headed god, patron of writing and mathematics and Hathor – goddess of love, music and dance.

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LIMES
The LIMES National Program, established in 2014 by order of the Minister of Culture, is part of an international effort to register archaeological sites along the route of the old border of the Roman Empire (known as "limes") in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
9 countries are involved in the fulfillment of this wish, Romania playing an essential role as the longest sector of the Romanian limes is located on the territory of the country (over 1000 km). The three institutions directly involved in the field research and documentation necessary for the entire project are the National Museum of Transylvanian History (MNIT) in Cluj-Napoca, the National Museum of Romanian History (MNIR) in Bucharest and the National Museum of the Eastern Carpathians (MNCR) in St. George.
The activity carried out in 2017 consisted in the continuation of the identification of relevant older documents and the continuation of field research. Documents such as the excavation reports of the archaeologist Dumitru Protase found in the MNIT archive, were scanned to be added to the file for the inclusion of sites belonging to the Romanian border located on the current territory of Romania.
The archaeometric field research (non-invasive methods such as archaeological topography, geophysics, LIDAR and aerial photography) carried out during the past year contributed decisively to the delineation with greater precision of the western Roman border south of Bologa and up to the area of Văia Ierii and Văia Ariesăului. In the area of 400 km2 researched for the first time, 28 monuments of Roman origin were found, most of them in the territory of Cluj county, and some in the territory of Sălaj county. Likewise, similar researches took place in the South-East of Transylvania, in the area of the Râșnov-Cumidava, Hoghiz and Brețcu castles, but also in the area of the Roman borders of the South-East of Dacia and Dobrogea.
The program's activity has been appreciated by international partners since the beginning, thanks to the progress made by all parties involved in the research and documentation work, given the complexity of the researched sector of the Romanian border.
"We have identified more than 300 sites along the entire length of this border in Romania, candidates to enter the World Heritage List. Among these sites are legionary barracks, auxiliary barracks, towers and other military installations related to this border." – Dr. George Cupcea, Deputy Director of MNIT.
The activity of the three responsible institutions has been carried out without interruption during the last years, even if the budget allocations have been delayed, and most of the time they have been insufficient.

Website: www.limesromania.ro
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