[17 May 2010] First inauguration of an ethnographic monument rebuilt within the project
ASTRA Museum opened the series of inaugurations rebuilt with non-reimbursable funds in the context of the International Day of Museums, Sunday 16th May in the Open air museum, with the ethnographic house – Miner house from Alun, Hunedoara County. This household is rebuilt within the project Conservation and restoration of Ethnographic Heritage in the Open air museum – Dumbrava Sibiului, through a grant offered by Island, Liechtenstein and Norway through the financial mechanism of the Economical European Area.
The members of Alun village community together with the priest of the village attended the 16th May event. The local authorities, media and cultural institutions representatives were also present. The reconstructions of three more ethnographic houses are to be finished and we estimate to inaugurate them this autumn. The execution workings on these ethnographic houses have started this spring and the visitors of the Open air museum and of this website have had the opportunity to watch them in progress.
Through the reconstruction of these ethnographic houses in the Open air museum we approach today the completion of a very ambitious thematic project which is set at the origin of the open air exhibition organization of what makes up today the heritage of the Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization in Romania focusing on the conservation and strengthening of Romanian traditional identity.
