Museums

The Museum was established after the art section got separated from the Banat Museum, which functioned, for a while, in a wing of the present building. The Museum became an independent institution starting 2006, with Prof.Marcel Tolcea as director. With the completion of a large part of the restoration of the palace and the exhibition space, the Museum, now expanded, was officially opened on December 21. The Museum includes a unique collection of works and personal belongings of painter Corneliu Baba, totalling 90 items. Another three sections include the contemporary, decorative and European art collections. The museum heritage also comprises Romanian, Banat and religious painting collections, which are currently not exhibited, due to the lack of space. The ground floor is dedicated to temporary exhibitions. Text and photo sources: https://www.facebook.com/muzeuldeartatm/; http://timisoara.eventya.eu/

The building was built between 1898 - 1899, with an impressive baroque facade. The approximately 65.000 objects kept in the museum and its deposits offers visitors ample opportunities to know the history, culture and civilization of this region. The museum has departments of archeology, ethnography, memorials, fine arts and medieval history: ● the archeology collection includes a lithic inventory, ornaments, tools, weapons and ceramics resulting of archaeological excavations conducted in Timişoara, Româneşti, Coşava, Visag, Sălbăgel, Sacoșul Mare, Susani, Jabăr, detaching the Thracian discoveries from Susani and the Dacian discoveries from Jabăr; ● the ethnographic collection includes traditional costumes and craftsman inventory from the area; ● the memorial collection contains documents and correspondence, objects belonging to personalities in the area; ● the art collection presents paintings of the contemporary and Austrian School, as well as a collection of sculptures of the artists Elisabeta Popper. Text source: http://www.turismlugoj.ro/

The Deta City Museum was founded in 1969, having as main profile prehistoric archeology and history. The museum halls hosts Hallstatt's, ceramics, medieval objects, as well as ethnographic items. The archaeological excavations made by curators of the Banat Museum and Professor Dani Bela (in the 1960s and 1970s) led to the discovery of bronze objects, bracelets, lamps, darts, pots, coins, ornaments, proving the existence of living in the area since the Neolithic era. Among the pieces appreciated in Deta City Museum are the printing machine used in 1880 to print the first issue of the newspaper ”Dettauer Zeitung”, weekly at the beginning, then twice a week, its appearance ceasing only in 1946.

The "Sever Bocu" Press Museum is a unique institution in Romania, opened in 2007 at the initiative and through the efforts of the poet Petre Stoica (1931-2009), with the support of the Local Council and Jimbolia City Hall. The museum's collection includes publications from the first half of the 19th century on the territory of Romania and in the diaspora (Bessarabia, northern Bucovina, Cadrilater, Serbian Banat, Hungary, Vienna, Paris etc.), in Romanian, German Hungarian, Serbian, French, English, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Italian, Turkish, Hebrew languages etc., from different fields (literature, history, medicine, industry, sports, fashion etc.). It was significantly enriched through the donation made by the Astra Library in Sibiu and is structured chronologically (19th century, 1900-1950, 1951-1989, after 1990), depending on the language in which the publication appeared and geographically - in the country (the city where it was published: Bucharest, Arad, Timisoara, Cluj, Sibiu, Braşov, Blaj, Iaşi etc.) or diaspora (Cernăuţi, Chişinău, Silistra etc.), being inventoried and highlighted in registers: daily newspapers, magazines, etc. The museum owns the oldest publications on the current territory of Romania. Since its opening, the museum has been thought of as a living space, a documentary point for students, researchers, etc., a place where are organised thematic exhibitions, communications sessions, symposiums, book launches, journalism camps. The collection of the museum is continuously enriched, the sources being paid or free subscriptions, donations made by editorial offices, institutions and individuals in the country and abroad. Text and photo source: https://www.facebook.com/muzeulpreseiseverbocu/ (foto - Theophil Soltesz)

The Memorial Museum of the1989 Revolution was founded by the Association for the Memorial of the Revolution of December 16-22,1989. Between 1990-1999, the Association created a Memorial complex in the Heroes' Cemetery of Timişoara and commissioned 12 monuments, subsequently placed in the hotspot areas of the revolution. In 1996, the Association created the National Centre for Documentation, Research and Public Information on the Revolution of December 1989. By means of this centre, the Association collects and leverages information related to the events of December 1989, while there is still a concern for studying the communist period in Romania. The Memorial of the Revolution of December 1989 was declared a landmark of national importance. Text source: https://timisoara.eventya.eu/

The Banat Village Museum is located in the Green Forest, just outside Timișoara, exit to Lugoj. The idea of establishing the museum belonged to Ioachim Miloia, director of the Banat Museum between 1928 and 1940. After attending the opening of the Ethnographic Museum in Cluj in 1928, Ioachim Miloia asked the local authorities to set up a village museum in the courtyard of the Hunyadi Castle. In 1967, the Banat Village Museum was assigned the current land, where it developed as an open-air museum. By strolling down the alleys of this ethnographical park, the visitor may easily get in touch with the civilization and traditional culture of Banat. What makes this museum special is the fact that it brings together an entire village, with alleys, farmhouses, mills, thus reconstructing the civic centre of the old rural settlement: school, church, town hall, pub and national house. The area of 17 hectares of the Banat Village Museum also accommodates several households belonging to the national minorities: a Hungarian one from the ethnographic area of Lugoj, a Ukrainian one from Maramureș, a Slovakian one from the Western Plain. Once in the ethnographic park, you may visit wooden, stone or clay houses, with straw or shingle rooftops, wooden pillars decorated by carving and notching, with different geometrical elements, high and long verandas or wide open porches. In July 2006, the Banat Village Museum was joined by the Ethnographical Section of the Village Museum, contributing its over 10,000 heritage items, structured into four major collections: fabrics, icons, art of wood crafting and pottery. Household items, tools and containers necessary for carrying out ancient occupations - beekeeping, fishing and hunting, religious items, traditional masks, naive painting, toys, musical instruments, ornaments, rural furniture. The Banat Village Museum also includes old documentary graphics collections and a documentary archive, as well as the photographic collection, albums and books. Admission hours: - Summer hours (May 1 - September 30): Tuesday – Saturday: 10-18, Sunday: 12:00-20:00; - Winter hours (October 1 - April 30): Tuesday – Friday: 9 - 16 , Saturday - Sunday: 10:00 - 17:00. Photo source: pagina oficială Facebook a Muzeului Satului Bănățean Text source: https://timisoara.eventya.eu/

Dedicated to the memory of the Romanian and world aviation pioneer, the Traian Vuia Museum is 20 km far from Lugoj in Traian Vuia locality, Timiş county, where on 17.08.1872 was born the inventor from Banat (Bujoru commune, Caraş-Severin county, at that time). The museum was inaugurated in April 2012, the year that commemorated 106 years from the time (18.03.1906) when Aurel Vlaicu reached the peaks of glory, achieving the first flight propelled by a machine heavier than air without using external means. Text and foto source: http://turismtimis.ro/; http://www.turismlugoj.ro/