1897
The General Assembly of the ASTRA
Association in Medias takes the
decision of founding a national
museum 1905 - (19 August)
“The Museum of the Association”
was inaugurated in Sibiu. 1940 Romulus Vuia
(1887-1963) proposes the founding
of an open - air ethnographic museum
in Dumbrava Sibiului (Sibiu’s Forest) 1956 Cornel Irimie
organizes the Folk Art Section at
the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu,
having in its collections some of
the ASTRA’s ethno heritage, abusively
dissolved in 1950. 1960 The town hall
from Sibiu transfers a land of about
100 hectares for the prospective
open-air museum in Sibiu’s Forests 1962 Cornel Irimie
starts the organizing of the museum
with a team of curators lead by
Herbert Hoffmann and arch. Paul
Niedermaier. The museum will be
inaugurated one year later. 1967 The Folk Technique
Museum was inaugurated as an open
- air ethnographic museum. The museum
is open for visitors. 1984 The first
Folk Craftsmen’s Fair was opened
in the Open Air Museum. 1990 - The decision
to found the Traditional Folk Civilization
Museum from Romania was taken 2001 - (11 February)
The ‘ASTRA’ National Museum Complex
was established. It comprised: the
‘ASTRA’ Traditional Folk Civilization
Museum, the ‘Franz Binder’ World
Ethnographical Museum (1993), the
Transylvanian Civilization Museum
(1993), the ‘Emil Sigerus’ Saxon
Civilization Museum (1998), the
‘Cornel Irimie’ Information and
Documentation Center of Ethnology
(1992), the ‘ASTRA’ Film Studio
(1991), the Conservation and Restoration
Laboratory (1991), the Folk Art
Galleries (1991), the Museum Pedagogical
Cabinet (2001).
ASTRA Traditional
Folk Civilization Museum
This is the largest Open-Air
museum in Europe situated in a magnificen landscape
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