Museikon testimonials

Henrik von Achen, director of Bergen University Museum: “This is why the museum institution is so important: a cultural heritage is only living culture if it is experienced, communicated, understood and used.”

His Eminence Irineu, Archbishop of Alba Iulia: “In these times marked by secularism, it is our sacred duty to preserve the spiritual and tangible heritage inherited from our ancestors.”

Gabriel Rustoiu, general manager of National Museum of Union Alba Iulia: “Today a history page was written. Why do I say that? Because today the first religious art museum in Romania was opened. It is not a collection and it is not an inventory. It's a museum of its own.”

Ana Dumitran, Museographer: “The Museikon exhibition, the permanent exhibition, will make available to the public probably the most beautiful Transylvanian icons and certainly the oldest.

We wanted to exhibit icons, to understand their meaning and to experience them. This was the word under which this type of exhibition was born, EXPERIENCE (…).”