Project: „Open Heritage: Increased public accessibility to multi-ethnic heritage values in the Astra Museum”
Project promoter: ASTRA National Museum Complex, Sibiu
Project Partner: Museum of South Trøndelag (MiST), Trondheim, Norway
Project duration: 40 months, but no later than 30.04.2017
Project grant rate: 100%
Planned project activities:
Finalised works, November 2015
Executed works, September 2015
The Multicultural Museum Pavilion was created – the new access to the open air museum and the headquarter for ASTRA Museum of Transylvanian Civilization storing 136,993 cultural objects. The new building hosts exhibition halls, deposits, galleries and office spaces.
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Restoration and conservation activities of 18 ethnographic monuments on the Path of Ethnic Minorities;
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Restoration and conservation of 2,000 museum objects;
Aheritage interpretation programme – Anima ASTRA, a summer programme that gathered different craftsmen and was meant to revive and re-contextualize the heritage belonging to ethnic minorities;
ASTRA Multicultural, an event dedicated to making cultural heritage of ethnic minorities accessible for the general public;
Research and documentation of ethnic minorities in partnership with the Norwegian partner which resulted in one publication and a common exhibition organized both in Romania and Norway;
A training course for Cultural Entertainers, with 20 participants
An educational programme Learning Diversity, promoting the diversity of cultural expression and intercultural dialogue;
38 jobs created in ASTRA Museum;
The number of visitors increased by 20% in the first year since the opening of the new building.
Șeica Mică. Multiculturalism on Târnava Mare
Frâncești. Călușari
Zăbala. Interethnic influences
Blăjeni.
MILA 23. The cradle of Lipovans
ASTRA Multicultural