”Octavian Goga” Memorial Museum from Ciucea

Muzeul Memorial ,,Octavian Goga” de la Ciucea

Address: Principală Street, no. 4, Ciucea, jud. Cluj

Phone: (004) 0264-259.003

E-mail: [email protected]

Web:  www.muzeuloctaviangoga.ro

Closed for restoration.

Octavian Goga was one of the most important personalities of Romania in the interwar period, one of the most important poets of Romanian literature and prime minister of Romania. In order to help the family of his friend, the poet Ady Endre, Octavian Goga buys his domain from Ciucea. He rebuilt the mansion, transforming it into an architectural monument in Brancoveanu style, and bought a property in the vicinity of the Reformed church, a property on which he built a monastery.

This domain becomes the permanent residence of Octavian Goga and the place where his funerary monument is located. Between 1938-1958, through the efforts of the poet’s widow, Veturia Goga built the “Mausoleum”, raised according to the plans of the architect G.M. Cantacuzino. This mausoleum is actually the funerary crypt of the Goga family.

In 1967, following a donation made to the Romanian state by the poet’s wife, Veturia Goga, the Octavian Goga Memorial Museum was built. The institution’s patrimony includes over 14,000 pieces organized on collections, exhibited or stored in the rooms of the museum complex.

The museum evokes the life and activity of the great poet by means of documents, books and photographs, but especially through the exhibition of a large number of objects that belonged to him, such as: a German chest from the 18th century, a Florentine case made in Transylvania in the 16th century, 2 armchairs covered with Cordoba leather dated in the 17th century, as well as Bidermazer armchairs and sofas.

National History Museum of Transylvania

O expozitie din Muzeul National de Istorie a Transilvaniei Cluj-Napoca, cu artefacte ceramice antice expuse in vitrine moderne, evidentiind mostenirea istorica a regiunii.

Address: Constantin Daicoviciu Street, no. 2

Phone: (004) 0264-595.677; (004) 0752-108.705

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.mnit.ro

Schedule: Tuesday–Sunday: 11:00 – 18:00 (summer schedule)

                    Tuesday–Sunday: 10:00 – 17:00 (winter schedule)

In 1859, the Transylvanian Museum Association was established with collections of antiquities, mineralogy, zoology and botany. In 1856, Count Miko Imre donated his villa to be used as the museum’s headquarters, which in 1872 passed into the patrimony of Francisc Iosif University. Since 1929, the antiques collection has been taken over by the Classical Studies Institute.

Since 1937, the museum works in its current building, presenting collections of antiques, medieval and modern ceramics, ancient and medieval lapidary. From 1948 the museum came under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Academy, so that, from 1963 it became an independent institution and one of the most important museums in Romania. The most important antiquities collection dates from the Daco-Roman era, the museum having impressive artifacts from that period, one of the most valuable exhibit being the ritual vessel with the inscription Decebalus per Scorilo. 

„Leonida Truță” Water Museum

Muzeul Apei din Floreşti

Address: Avram Iancu Street, no. 425, Floreşti

Phone: (004) 0374-340.000

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.casomes.ro

The entrance and visit of the Water Museum is free but it can be made only after an appointment.         

In 1992, County Autonomous Public Entity for Water – Sewerage from Cluj (the current Someş Water Company), inaugurated the first and only water museum in Romania. It was set up in the Someșului Mic meadow, on the 100th anniversary of the Cluj Water and Sewerage Company, in the building of the pumping station from the underground source put into operation in 1898. In the pavilion and in the nearby outdoor section are exposed photographs, technical plans, tubular materials attesting the history of water supply and sewerage of the Cluj-Napoca city and suggesting the path of drinking water from source to consumer and then the return of used water in nature. The museum operates under the motto “Water is Life”, and in the museum hall there is an artesian well that symbolizes this truth.

Botanical Museum

Muzeului Botanic Alexandru Borza Cluj-Napoca, inconjurata de gradini pline de flori colorate. Arhitectura alba a cladirii se armonizeaza cu vegetatia luxurianta

Address: Republicii Street, no. 42

Phone: (004) 0264-592.152

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.muzee.ubbcluj.ro

Schedule: Monday–Friday: 9:00 – 15:00

The Botanical Museum was built in 1919 with the status of academic collection and operates in a building located inside the Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden. It has over 6,000 exhibits. The arrangement of the exhibits was made on the basis of three principles: systematic, ecological and economic. These have been grouped into several collections:

  • Collection of aromatic and spicy products
  • Raw materials for heating and lighting
  • Collection of medicinal plants
  • Textile plant collection
  • Palm tree seed collection

Among the special exhibits we can mention “the champion seed” of the seed world, weighing 16 kg from the palm tree seed collection and 450 samples, with transversal sections of both indigenous wood essences (yew, fir tree, maple, juniper, cherry tree, cotinus, walnut, larch, etc.), and exotic ones (coconut tree, eucalyptus, ebony tree, carob, cedar, camphor tree, etc.)

Museum of Cluj Metropolitan Church

Muzeul Mitropoliei Clujului, unde sunt expuse manuscrise si icoane religioase. Vitrina centrala contine carti si obiecte de cult, iar peretii sunt decorati cu icoane ortodoxe.

Address: Avram Iancu Square, no. 18 

Phone: (004) 0264-431.004

Web: www.mitropolia-clujului.ro/muzeul-mitropoliei/

Schedule: Tuesday–Saturday: 10:00 – 17:00

                   Sunday: 12:00 – 17:00

In the Cluj Archiepiscopate palace in Avram Iancu Square, an Eparchial Museum was settled up in 1924, at the initiative of Bishop Nicolae Ivan. The museum was opened to the public in 1938, its collections being arranged in several spaces on the second floor of the eparchial residence.

During the 2000s, the museum was reorganized into a space in the basement of the cathedral to be reopened to the public at the initiative of Metropolitan Bartholomeu Anania. The reorganization of the collection was carried out by a team of specialists coordinated by academician Marius Porumb. The museum was reopened on December 6, 2011, in the presence of the new Metropolitan of Cluj IPS, Andrei Andreicuț and Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

The museum collection includes an important patrimony of old Romanian books and icons on wood and glass from the 17th century, painted in the iconographic centres of Feleacu and Nicula. In the crypt of the hierarchs are the graves of the Orthodox bishops of Cluj: Bishop Nicolae Ivan – the first Romanian Orthodox hierarch after the re-establishment of an Orthodox eparchy in the Cluj area, Archbishop Teofil Herineanu, Archbishop and Metropolitan Bartholomeu Anania, the access being free for those who wish to exclusively visit this part of the museum.

The Paleontology and Stratigraphy Museum

diverse fosile si schelete expuse in Muzeul de Paleontologie-Stratigrafie din Cluj-Napoca. Acesta ofera o colectie impresionanta de exponate care ilustreaza evolutia vietii pe Pamant,

Address: Mihail Kogălniceanu Street, no. 1

Phone: (004) 0264–405.300

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.muzee.ubbcluj.ro

Schedule: Monday–Friday: 10:00–14:00

In the central building of Babeş-Bolyai University is located the Paleontology and Stratigraphy Museum of the Biology and Geology Faculty. It holds a collection of over 50,000 objects, being structured in thematic collections. The patrimony is composed of some objects from the collection of Francisc Iosif University inaugurated in 1872 and samples donated by geology professors and students. Of the 50,000 samples, 30,000 are permanently exposed and are organized thematically:

    • Paleontology Taxonomic Collection – follows the evolution of life throughout the geological eras starting with the Paleozoic (Carboniferous 354 Ma) and ending with the Pleistocene (1.81 Ma).
    • The Types Collection – the most valuable collection in the museum, composed of over 200 fossil species (plants and animals) new to science.
    • General Stratigraphy Collection – includes several fossils collections of stratigraphic importance and rocks from Romania or Europe.
    • Stratigraphic Collection of the Transylvanian Basin
    • The outdoor collection, located in the inside courtyard of Babeș-Bolyai University, includes large samples of eruptive, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks and even giant fossils (rudists).

The Zoological Museum

Imaginea prezinta doi cerbi expusi in Muzeul Zoologic din Cluj. Muzeul ofera o colectie impresionanta de animale impaiate, ilustrand biodiversitatea si fauna regiunii intr-un cadru educativ.

Address: Clinicilor Street, no. 5-7

Phone: (004) 0264.598 .700

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.muzee.ubbcluj.ro

Schedule: Tuesday–Friday: 10:00–16:00

                   Saturday–Sunday 10:00–14:00

Established in 1859 as a section of the Transylvanian Museum, the Zoological Museum of Babeș-Bolyai University is located in the building of the Biology Faculty. On a small area of about 700 square meters you can find species from most regions of Romania but also from other parts of the globe. Through its heritage, the museum is one of the most important profile institution of this kind in the country.

The exhibition is structured in several rooms that include: the actual exhibition, consisting of a large number of vertebrates and invertebrates, exposed so that they reproduce a natural environment and the dioramas room. To these are added the scientific collections, which include over 300,000 animal specimens, most of them insects and the museum reserve, which biological material is exhibited in temporary conditions. Among the exhibits of the basic collection that are rarities or extinct species we can mention: the bearded eagle and the bald eagle, both permanently extinct species from Romanian fauna, the platypus and the echidna from Australia.

The Mineralogy Museum

Imaginea prezinta un cristal de ametist expus in cadrul Muzeului de Mineralogie din Cluj. Muzeul ofera o colectie variata de minerale si pietre pretioase

Address: Mihail Kogălniceanu Street, no. 1

Phone: (004) 0264-405.300; (004) 0747-027.389

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.muzee.ubbcluj.ro

Schedule: Tuesday–Friday: 11:00 – 16:00

 

The Mineralogy Museum is located in the main building of Babeș-Bolyai University. The museum currently has 16,500 exhibits in its patrimony: 12,500 minerals, 3,700 processed gems and over 200 meteorites. The permanent exhibition is organized in a space of 126 square meters and has a number of 8000 exhibits.

Among the peculiarities that give a unique character to this museum we can mention:

  • The only actual collection of meteorites in Romania
  • One of the richest and most varied gold collections in Romania
  • The most spectacular and diversified exhibition of precious and finely processed stones
  • The richest and most complete collection of ornaments in Romania
  • The largest number of mineral species in a systematic collection in Romanian museums
  • The great variety of cities with mineralogical importance represented, from the country and abroad

Vivariu Museum

Un cameleon, parte din colectia de animale exotice de la Muzeul Vivariu Cluj.

Address: Clinicilor Street, no. 5–7 

Phone: (004) 0264–596.116 

E-mail:  [email protected]

Web: www.muzee.ubbcluj.ro

Schedule: Monday–Friday: 10:00–16:00

                   Saturday–Sunday: 10:00–14:00

The Zoology Institute located inside the Biology Faculty is one of the most important research centers of Babeș-Bolyai University. Within it, between 1998-2001, a Vivariu Museum was established which has a double dimension: a scientific research one, and a museum one. This space is organized in the form of a miniature zoo with places specially designed for raising small animals in their natural habitat. The permanent exhibition includes around 60 species of reptiles, fish, micro-mammals and birds such as the Puff Viper, Rainbow Boa, Leopard Gekko, Nile Monitor, Chinchilla, Dobrogean Turtle, Chameleon, Salamander, etc.

Babeş- Bolyai University Museum

Universitatii Babes-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca, in care se afla si Muzeul Universitatii. Cladirea impunatoare, cu arhitectura clasica, reflecta importanta academica si culturala a institutiei.

Address: Mihail Kogălniceanu Street, no. 4

Phone: (004) 0264-591.471 

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.muzee.ubbcluj.ro

Schedule: Monday–Friday: 9:30 – 13:30

TEMPORARILY CLOSED

The University Museum in Cluj was established in 2001, its collections having over 750 original pieces and facsimiles (student report cards, yearbooks, academic manuals, documents, diplomas, postcards, pictures, different scientific instruments, medals etc.). They help rebuilding the history and activity of colleges, faculties and universities in Cluj-Napoca from the 16th century until today.

The museum hosts a mini technical collection containing old instruments from the Faculties of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, used in time on the applied research in Cluj. Among them: Hilger spectrograph, mono and binocular microscopes, oscilloscopes, radio signal generators. Also, data are presented related to the establishment of ”Babeş-Bolyai” University in 1959, by uniting  the Romanian and Hungarian universities, as well as a history of the evolution of this European multicultural institution.