The Banat Village Museum ( Romanian : Muzeul Satului Bănățean ) is an open-air ethnographic museum in northeastern Timișoara , at the edge of the Green Forest . Spread over an area of 17 ha, the museum is designed as a traditional Banat village and includes peasant households belonging to various ethnic groups in Banat (Romanians, Slovaks, Swabians, Ukrainians, Hungarians, etc.), buildings with social function of the traditional village (town hall, school, church, etc.), folk art installations and workshops.
17-593: The idea of establishing an open-air ethnographic museum goes back to Ioachim Miloia, former director of the Museum of Banat between 1928 and 1940. In 1928, after Miloia returned from the opening ceremony of the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca , he asked the municipality for permission to open a small village museum in the courtyard of Huniade Castle . After the approval, he exhibited
34-613: A period of nine years by presidential decree; it was reopened on 1 May 1995. Until 2000, it functioned as a section of the Museum of Banat , after which it became a separate institution subordinated to the Timiș County Council. In 2006, the Ethnography section of the Museum of Banat (with its over 13,000 heritage objects) relocated to the Banat Village Museum. The museum is designed on three thematic levels –
51-575: A result of the Treaty of Trianon on 4 June 1920, a restructuring of the museum took place under Emanuil Ungureanu [ ro ] , cultural inspector of Timișoara in the interwar period. Romanian personalities who are credited with the Museum of Banat were Ioachim Miloia , Dionisie Linția [ ro ] , Aurel Ciupe , Marius Moga and Constantin Daicoviciu . The current headquarters in
68-426: A series of traditional houses of the historical ethnic groups of Banat. Starting with 2000, a Hungarian house (Babșa, Timiș), a German house (Biled, Timiș), a Slovak house (Nădlac, Arad) and a Ukrainian house (Repedea, Maramureș) were inaugurated here. The Serbian house is currently under construction, and the director of the museum is considering the acquisition of a Bulgarian house and a Czech house. The Living Museum
85-656: Is a cross-border project between Romania and Hungary started in 2012. The project aims at creating four replicas of traditional households (a Romanian house, a Hungarian house, a Swabian house and a Serbian house) as a reconstruction of country life in Banat in the 18th and 19th centuries. Since 2000, every first Sunday of May, the Festival of Ethnicities takes place here, during which various ethnic groups exhibit their clothing, gastronomic and musical traditions. The Banat Village Museum also hosts other well-known events, including
102-626: The Huniade Castle was obtained by the Timișoara City Hall for the museum in 1947. Until 2000, it included the following departments: History, Natural Sciences, Art, Ethnography, Banat Village Museum and Zonal Restoration Laboratory. The Banat Village Museum and the Art Department became independent museums in 2000 and 2006, respectively. The Huniade Castle was closed in 2010 for restoration works. The Museum of Banat received
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136-701: The Craftsmen's Fair (an exhibition selling traditional products of popular culture from all over the country) and the Plai Festival. Museum of Banat The National Museum of Banat ( Romanian : Muzeul Național al Banatului ; abbreviated MNaB ) is a museum in Timișoara , Romania , headquartered in Huniade Castle . It was founded in 1872 by the Society of History and Archeology of Banat ( Romanian : Societatea de Istorie și Arheologie din Banat ) on
153-522: The Society of History and Archeology of Banat on 25 July 1872 on the initiative of Prefect Zsigmond Ormós [ hu ] laid the foundations of the Museum of Banat. The first exhibits were initially housed in a room in the Palace of the Bishopric of Cenad and consisted of donations, adventitious archeological discoveries and acquisitions. In 1876, with the support of the prefect of Temes County ,
170-526: The Society of History and Archeology received two exhibition rooms in the Wellauer House on Lonovics Street (present-day Augustin Pacha Street), the museum's headquarters until the interwar period. The official opening of the museum to the public took place a year later. When the Wellauer House was extensively renovated in 1887, the exhibits were temporarily stored in the old town hall. In 1888,
187-665: The Village Civic Center, the Alley of Ethnicities and the Living Museum. The core of the museum is the Village Civic Center, consisting of a town hall, a school, a "national house" and an inn, the central piece being the wooden church. Built in 1746 in Remetea-Luncă, it was donated in 1807 to churchgoers in the neighboring village of Topla, where it was moved on rollers pulled by 24 pairs of oxen. From there it
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#1732787479743204-725: The construction of the Museum Palace (today the Romanian Academy Library) was completed. The palace proved to be too small and did not have enough storage space, so that in 1937 it was decided that the museum should be moved to the Palace of Culture , in the current building of the Romanian Opera and the National Theatre . At the beginning of the last decade of the 19th century, the museum had
221-414: The first wooden churches, crosses and farmhouses here. After several insistences from those who followed Ioachim Miloia at the head of the Museum of Banat (Marius Moga, Ioan Dihor), in 1967 the museum received the current plot of land on which developed the open-air ethnographic museum, open to public since 20 August 1971. In 1986 the museum was subject to preservation measures and was closed to visitors for
238-705: The following collections: archeology and ancient history, pinacotheca, natural sciences, library and archive. In 1896, the Museum of Banat participated in the Budapest Millennium Exhibition [ hu ] with several objects, winning a bronze medal and a certificate of appreciation. Personalities who made outstanding contributions to the Museum of Banat before World War I were Jenő Szentkláray [ hu ] , István Berkeszi [ hu ] , István Pontelly [ hu ] , István Patzner, Achill Deschán and Gergely Kabdebó. After Banat came under Romanian administration as
255-501: The initiative of the prefect of the then Temes County Zsigmond Ormós [ hu ] . It hosts the largest collection of archeological objects in Banat . The ground floor houses the 6,200-year-old Parța Neolithic Sanctuary . The museum includes departments for archeology, history and natural sciences. The museum also has a laboratory for conservation and preservation of objects of cultural heritage and history. The establishment of
272-1177: The status of national museum in 2016. Its temporary headquarters for the organization of temporary exhibitions and cultural events is the Theresia Bastion . Orm%C3%B3s Zsigmond Look for Ormós Zsigmond on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Ormós Zsigmond in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use
289-570: Was brought to the museum in 1987. The houses are equipped with two or three living rooms, and a notable feature is the guest room, known as "clean sobă " or "big sobă " ( sobă is a Banat regionalism for living room), beautifully decorated with precious fabrics such as carpets, rugs, and tablecloths. The roofs are supported by wooden poles with traditional ornamentation, and the houses range from those with thatched or shingle roofing to peasant and potter houses, completed with traditional technical installations. The Alley of Ethnicities consists of
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