History Museum

 

For preserving the impressive traces of history, the History Museum stands in the center of Turda, a testimony of the past. With a valuable heritage, the over 40,000 cultural assets are structured into:

· Prehistory collection - 250 artifacts, the oldest traces of settlement in the area, dating from the Paleolithic - Musterian culture - are represented through fossils
· Roman and post-Roman collection, with 24,526 cultural assets, specific pieces of military equipment and weapons; gold, silver, and bronze coins and jewelry; stone sculptures and inscriptions; roof and ceramic materials.
· Medieval-modern and memorial collection, with 7,087 pieces - numismatics, jewelry, old books, weapons, military accessories and awards, guilds, seals, noble diplomas, documents and photographs.
· Ethnographic collection - an impressive and valuable collection of ethnographic pieces, totaling approximately 750 pieces: icons and cult objects, furniture, tools, household and domestic objects, textiles and attire, ceramics, musical instruments.
· Art collection - furniture pieces, paintings, tapestries, engravings, decorative objects, etc. The most valuable piece in the collection is the oil painting entitled, Dieta de la Turda, created in 1896 by Hungarian painter Körösfői-Kriesch Aladár, depicting the historical moment of declaring religious consciousness and tolerance at the Diet of Turda (January 6-13, 1568).

Modernization project:

A new Ethnographic Section will be established at the Turda History Museum, where a building and a pavilion will be built for the new Ethnographic Section of the History Museum to operate. Thus, visitors will experience cultural, educational, and recreational services at the highest standards. At the same time, the project also involves the development of the entire building lot with green areas and pedestrian paths.