1 May – 30 Sep: Tue – Fri 8.00-18.00, Sat – Sun 08.00-15.00
"Anton Badea" Ethnographic Museum was established in 1960 after the decision of the People's Council, by the one who is named after, an ethnographer passionate about popular culture who started with a collection of 64 items of traditional clothing.
The building housing the permanent exhibition is a historical monument from 1892 having eight rooms dedicated to the museum.
The first two rooms on the left shelter the exhibition called "The woman in family and society". It presents the role of women both in traditional society, until the beginning of the 20th century when they were exclusively involved in the domestic space reason why we find here specific objects such as textile industry tools, ceramics or traditional wear, as well as the contemporary woman, accomplished professionally and represented here by the personality of the soprano Virginia Zeani, one of the greatest opera singer who was born near Reghin, in Solovastru.
In the third room, "The bread route" exhibition presents the main steps for making bread starting from harvesting wheat. Therefore, one can find here sickles, tools for removing and cleaning the grains or different bread pans for various occasions and also the wheat crown, symbol of old harvest traditions.
Passing through room number four, dedicated to various temporary exhibitions, we reach the secondary occupations exhibition such as fishing represented in the fifth room by several tools, including one for ice fishing. Moving on to the next room, one can find here other occupations such as hunting, foraging (flowers used as dye for home textiles, forest fruits or medicinal plants), beekeeping and even bee hunting - an occupation that is no longer practiced, the latter being exemplified by objects such as beehives, the press for squeezing honeycombs or the bee smoker. There are also traps for larger or smaller animals, a hunting cage, baskets and blueberry pickers.
In the penultimate room, the wheelwrighting room, one can see specific tools used to make wooden cart wheels, as well as a bicycle with wooden wheels and frame, from the beginning of the 20th century and also a two-wheeled cart, called „teleguță”, used for carrying wood but also for the tradition of the plowman - the first plowman of the year was celebrated by being carried around the village on that cart.
The last permanent exhibition is entitled "The Thread of Life". Here, the most important moments of life are depicted - birth and baptism, the traditional wedding, the funeral. The tour continues in the courtyard, with the 3 traditional houses, from the 18th and 19th centuries, displaying specific Romanian, Saxon and Hungarian items, such as traditional wear, icons or furniture.
In addition to the household annexes, traditional machineries and the small church inside which one can admire an exhibition of painted eggs, old religious books and icons painted on wood and glass from the 18th -19th centuries, the museum includes a manual wheat mill which can be used for practical demonstrations because here there is the concept of "living museum", the personnel periodically organizing workshops both for children and for adults.
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