LLP-LDV/TOI/07/IT/016

1. LLP-LDV/TOI/07/IT/016

2. University Lucian Blaga SibiuIPCTE research centreDepartment of Ancient and Medieval History F-M U. S. EU. M. (Form Multimedia System for a European Museum)

3. University Lucian Blaga Sibiu, IPCTE research centre is partner in this project and it taking care of two beneficiaries museums from the area of Transylvania: • Brukenthal National Museum Sibiu • The Deva Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilization

4. IPCTE Background • The IPCTE is a research centre focused on the accessibility of the Transylvanian patrimony. In this moment we have more ongoing projects financed by Romanian Research Agencies and our University. • Our web site is one of the well ranked site in Romanian cultural sector. Most of the information are available in Romanian and English languages.

5. We have a dedicated area for our archaeological sites around Transylvania, with all the work we have done.

6. A special area is related to our scientific journal ActaTerraeSeptemcastrensis, with the on-line version of the printed journal.

7. We have one of the biggest on line library from Romania about patrimony, with more than 30 books available in pdf and html formats. (repositories, sites reports e.g.)

8. Another area is dedicated to the symposiums we organized.

9. Other projects are available on line, like virtual reconstructions of Neolithic and Medieval environments.

10. Or about the repository of the radiocarbon data from Romania and nearby areas from Paleolithic to the Eneolithic times. We have a data base with more than 800 records.

11. Brukenthal National Museum Website • It is an working website. http://www.brukenthalmuseum.ro/en • Each department is having a section with descriptions, contacts and some on line materials. • They have inside museum, touch screens with more digitalized materials. • Available in Romanian, English and Deutsch languages.

12. The Deva Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilisation • No official website. A website about museum is available at http://museum.worldwidesam.net/ • No official control on this version. • Last update is July 2005 • It is necessary to build a new one.

13. Was opened to the public in 1817. - is the third museum ever founded in Europe - is the first museum in Romania that worked and still works today Named after its founder, Samuel von Brukenthal, Governor of Transylvania between 1777-1787,who built the impressive Baroque Palace that shelters the main collections. The value, diversity and importance of the collections, recommend the museum as an institution of European prestige. The museum participates in many International Cultural Projects. • It is in fact a complex of three museums which, without being separated administratively speaking, have different locations and their own cultural programs.

14. The structure of the Brukenthal National Museum • The museum has in his subordination 8 buildings, 5 of them being palaces built in different periods. The oldest building is the one that houses the History Museum, built in the 14th century and the newest building dates from 1901. The Brukenthal Palace and The Blue House The History Museum

15. The Pharmacy Museum The Natural History Museum The Hunting Museum August von Spiess House, Piaţa Mică, nr. 22 The Contemporary Art Gallery

16. The European ArtGallery is located in the Brukenthal Palace. The collection of paintings had been acquired by the baron von Brukenthal from Vienna after 1750. They illustrate the main European painting schools: Flemish-Dutch (456 pieces), Italian (200), German-Austrian (450), French and Spanish (20) of the 15th-18th centuries. • The names of the artists in the museums collections range from Antonello da Messina, Lorenzo Lotto, Alessandro Magnasco, Albrecht Dürer, Rubens, Botticeli to Jan vanDyck and Titian. The Brukenthal Palace built from 1778 to 1788

17. The Printroom, beingfounded by Baron Samuel von Brukenthal is considered to be the oldest in Romania. It owns more than 12,000 items of the 16th-18th centuries European engravings, as well as Romanian modern and contemporary art. Albrecht Dürer, Marcantonio Raimondi, Hendrick Goltzius, Agostino Carracci, J. Callot, G. Tiepolo, Piranesi are worth being mentioned. Albrecht DÜRER St.Eustachius • The Decorative Art Collectionis representative for the history of Transylvania and Central Europe as many objects were achieved in Transylvanian guilds centers. It sums up more than 600 exhibits: furniture (about 200), medieval tin and silver objects (61), canonical made in Italy in the 14th-15th centuries (20), the Far East decorative arts (120) and the most important collection of medieval carpets in Romania (61). HERMANN, Melchior A virgin’s cup

18. The Transylvanian Painting Collection, one of the most significant of its kind in the country, includes a great number of portraits from the 16th to the 18th century, important especially from a historical and documentary point of view The Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art contains the works of: Nicolae Grigorescu, the initiator of modern Romanian painting, Theodor Pallady, considered to be the most important painter from between the two World Wars, Hans Mattis Teutsch, the first abstract painter, Corneliu Baba and Alexandru Ciucurencu, the initiators of the Romanian contemporary school of painting. The Romanian Art Gallery Mişu Popp The girl in blue Arthur Coulin Countrywomen from Transylvania Ion Andreescu Path in a Forest

19. Brukenthal Library • The total number of volumes reach approximately 300,000 of which 442 titles represent incunabula grouped together in 382 volumes. • examples from the manuscript collection • - BrukenthalBreviarium (purchased in 1786 in Vienna) • - Vigiliale, manuscript on parchment from the year 1507 from Sura Mare, Sibiu district. • the incunabula Toma de Aquino, Opus praeclarum quarti scripti, Mainz 1469; Breviarum croaticum, 1493; Petrarca, Triomphi, 1488; Schedel's Chronicles (2,000 illustrations engraved in wood), Nuremberg, 1493; De mirabilibus mundi by Solinus C. Iulius, printed in Venice in 1488; Strabo's Geografia, Rome, 1473; Natural History by Piliniu the Old, Venice, 1498 etc. Virgiliale Brukenthal Breviarium

20. The Natural History Museum was founded by The Transylvanian Society of Natural Sciences (Sieben-bürgischer Verein für Naturwiessenschaf-ten), in 1849. The immense archives of science are the result of research started at the middle of the 19th century by a number of native and foreign scientists and nature lovers grouped around that society. Collections: over 1,000,000 pieces: the botanical collection (168,000), zoology (22,500), mineralogy (12,000), petrography (7,000), entomology (266,000), malacology (510,000), palaeontology (57,000), ornithology (5,000)

21. The Pharmacy Museum was inaugurated in 1972 and functions in an ancient building which dates back to 1568, an architectural monument of Gothic and Renaissance overtones. The first chemist’s shop ever attested in the lands functioned here in 1494. • The collections of the museum exceed 6,600 pieces (16th - 19th centuries) which are proofs of pharmaceutical techniques and of medicine in the Romanian lands. The homoeopathic collection sums up 2,900 pieces.

22. The Hunting Trophies Museum The permanent hunting exhibition was reorganised in 1981 in a modern display in the Spiess House. The exhibition recreates the evolution of the hunting arms from ancient times and it emphasises the valuable trophies to be found in Romania, which were awarded in Romania and abroad. The collection includes over 1,500 native and exotic pieces.

23. The Contemporary Art Galleries are located into a building constructed in 1901 and renovated in 2006. Different contemporary artists from Romania or other countries exhibit here every year. Until now we hosted exhibitions from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Israel, Luxembourg, Romania, Switzerland.

24. The edifice that houses The History Museum is a representative monument in Gothic style; its nucleus was the dwelling of the mayor Thomas Altemberger, constructed at the end of the 15th century. It is the greatest Gothic civil construction in Transylvania. In 1549, it was turned into a town hall and functioned as such until 1948.

25. Collections: numismatics (60,000 antique Greek and Roman, medieval Hungarian, Transylvanian, German coins), archaeology (39,000 exhibits and 82,000 fragments of archaeological items), decorative arts and guild objects (about 14,000 items), arms (1,900), documentary graphic arts (33,000).

26. The Museum of History – The Numismatic Collection The numismatic collection of the Brukenthal Museum holds almost 60,000 coins and medals. Along two centuries the collection was enriched with coins issued in every historic period, which were discovered in Transylvania or brought from other geographical areas and donated to the museum, so that at present our storehouse holds isolated gold, silver and bronze coins and ancient Dacian, republican or imperial Roman hoards. At the same time we hold series of modern and medieval coins, among which an important place is held by the gold and silver issues of Transylvanian princes. The collection includes also several hoards composed of medieval and modern token coins issued in Eastern and Central Europe.

27. The Museum of History – The Collection of Archaeology The museum is having in it’s warehouses 39,000 archaeologic museum pieces and further 82,000 fragments of pieces. There are ongoing excavations at Miercurea Sibiului, Valea Viilor, Tilisca and Cheile Turzii who are providing each year more artefacts from Paleolithic through Neolithic, Eneolithic and Bronz age till Dacian epoch. Hand axe, bifacial. Middle Paleolithic, Mousterian Culture. Hand axe, unifacial. Inferior Paleolithic, Pebble Culture.

28. The Museum of History – The Collection of Archaeology Starčevo-Criş Culture -Anthropomorphic idol. Starcevo Cris - idols in Habitat exhibition. Starčevo-Criş Culture – Small shrine from burned clay. Starčevo-Criş Culture – Burned clay –zoomorphic idol. Starčevo-Criş Culture – Bucranium.

29. Starčevo-Criş Culture – pit house reconstruction, With pottery and tools. Flint blades . Starčevo-Criş Culture – Stone axe, polished.

30. The Museum of History – The Collection of Archaeology Starčevo-Criş Culture – four leg shrine. Starčevo-Criş Culture – bowls.

31. Anthropomorphic idols , Vinča Culture, Miercurea Sibiului. Vessel lids. House model, on a pottery bail.

32. Pottery, Vinča Culture, Miercurea Sibiului.

33. Vinča Culture House reconstruction with pottery, axes, grinder, mill stone and clay weights, bone tools, obsidian and flint blades.

34. Petresti Culture - Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic idols. Shrine clay model. Petresti Culture Pianu de Jos ritual shrine reconstruction with original pottery. House clay model. Chair clay model. Tools (stone axe and bone tools).

35. Cotofeni culture, idol, pottery and bones.

36. Cooper axe -adze (Jaszladany, Sincai branch). Cooper axe-hammer (Plocnik). Cooper chisel gab. Bronze sickle . Bronze discus axe. Bronze sword. Celt .

37. Bronze objects from a Depozit. The bronze deposits are all over Transylvania. The image is from museum reconstruction, the moment of discovery.

38. Noua Culture Grave from Valea Viilor, Sibiu County.

39. Dacian pottery from Tilisca. Dacian iron tools and weapons from Tilisca.

40. Dacian objects from Tilisca cremation grave.

41. Roman pottery and tools. (Materials displayed in a Villa rustica reconstituted in the museum). Roman building materials.

42. Tin vessels from XVII century and beginning of the XVIII century. Glass vessels from XVII century and beginning of the XVIII century.

43. Glass shape form from Porumbacu de Sus. Glass finery.

44. We have almost 2000 artefacts belonging to the guilds, brotherhoods and medieval journeymen from XIV – XIX centuries. Painted table (XVII century). Jewel objects. Worship objects.

45. The Treasury is formed and enriched itself through donations and acquisitions from the Evangelic churches, guilds and citizens, jewelers and antiquaries and through discoveries. The silverwork collection comprises over 1000 pieces, as follows> 120 liturgical works (chalices, ciboriums, hrismatoriums, altar crosses e.g.), 100 profane silverworks (goblets, guild or neighborhood beakers e.g..), 655 ornaments and jewels (belt buckels, buckels, pocket watches, rings, hair pins, buttons eg.) and over 200 tableware pieces. This collection is one of the richest from Romania and most of the pieces were executed by the goldsmiths from Sibiu Frankenstein –Cup of rhinoceros horn. XVII th century. Evangelic Church Sibiu. Jewel objects. .

46. Ciborium – Evangelic Church Merghindeal, end of the XIV th century. Transylvanian workshop. Chalice – Evangelic Church Cisnadie, second half of the XIV th century.

47. Women suit XVIII century. Women suit XIX century. Suits accessories, XVIII-XIX centuries.

48. We have a large collection of weapons and armors with european and oriental objects.

49. The roman lapidarium collections held dozens of pieces. Jupiter Tronans, century II A.D. Hecate Triformis, centuries I-II A.D. (Salinae) Tauroctonia, century II A.D. Apulum. Funerary medallion, century II A.D. Apoldu de Sus.

50. The Medieval Lapidarium is having a lot of pieces, mostly of them from the Sibiu town and cemeteries. Daniel and the lions. XVII th century. Fri\om the House with the lions (demolished).