Brukenthal National Museum

The Brukenthal Museum (Romanian Muzeul Naţional Brukenthal ) is a group of museums in Sibiu ( German Hermannstadt) in Transylvania ( Romania). The museums are scattered throughout the city. They have their own programs and series of events, but are managed together.

Origins

The founder of this museum was Samuel Brukenthal, 1774-1787 Habsburg governor of Transylvania. He began to acquire the first pieces for his collections from about 1754 in Vienna. 1817 this, Brukenthal Testament were accordingly made ​​as a property of the Nation University, ie the totality of the Transylvanian Saxons and their German, Protestant Church, to the public.

The collection Brukenthal thus represents the first museum in Transylvania and is also the oldest institution of its kind on the territory of today's Romania.

After the expropriation of the museum holdings, in 1948, a considerable part of the collections were distributed to other museums in the country or are there today (2011 ) is supported. Pursuant to an agreement between Romania and the church from the year 2005, all expropriated pieces returned and will be exhibited in museums. The process of repatriation, also from the National Museum and the National History Museum in Bucharest, in 2011 took on yet.

Collection Brukenthal

Pinakothek

The Brukenthalsche collection of paintings is located in the 1778-1788 built baroque Brukenthal Palace on the Grand Boulevard, the main square of Sibiu, and contains about 1200 paintings of important European artistic schools of the 15th to 18th century: works of the Flemish, German, Austrian, Italian, Spanish and French Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo. The palace itself is the most important baroque buildings in Transylvania.

Library

The Brukenthal Library ( Biblioteca Brukenthal ) is also located in the Palais and covers about 300,000 individual pieces ( manuscripts, incunabula, rare Rare Rien, contemporary books and magazines from the late 18th century).

More collections

Brukenthal the public, leaving a further Prints and Drawings, a number of significant carpets, as well as coin and mineral collections.

Historical Museum

The Historical Museum ( Muzeul de Istorie ) is housed in the old Sibiu City Hall. This building complex is the most important surviving Gothic architecture in Transylvania. Originally, the museum was limited to the presentation of the history of Sibiu and its environs, now it displays exhibits of the entire southern Transylvania.

Pharmacy Museum

The Pharmacy Museum ( Muzeul de Istorie a Farmaciei ) is a historic building from 1569 houses at Little Square, where the oldest pharmacy is located on the territory of today's Romania. In the basement of this house Samuel Hahnemann invented homeopathy as a new method of treatment. Some of his vials and documents will be shown. The original furniture in the Viennese style is still largely preserved. The exhibition is grouped around the structure of a traditional pharmacy with two laboratories, and has a homeopathic as well as a documentary department. It contains over 6,000 old medical instruments and equipment for the production of medicines. Labeled wooden jars for their storage complete the collection. In the entrance area gives a reconstructed shop with wood counters and glass jars, the atmosphere of a pharmacy of the 18th century.

Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum ( Muzeul de Istorie Naturală ) has its beginnings in 1849, when the Transylvanian Association was founded for the natural sciences, whose members were local and foreign persons of scientific and cultural life. The collections of this museum include over a million mineralogical- petrographic, paleontological, botanical and zoological objects.

Weapons and hunting trophies

The August-von - spit - museum of weapons and hunting trophies ( Muzeul de arms şi de Trofee Vanatoare ) presents the development of equipment and weapons for hunting. Also shown are traditional hunting techniques and contemporary stitches. Likewise enlightened about hunting wild game and the hunting seasons and closed seasons. Significant also is the collection of hunting trophies belonging to the collections Witting and August spit. The latter was acquired in 1963 and originally comprised 1058 copies. The stock has now grown to approximately 1,500 copies.

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