Avrig Museum

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Name:
Avrig Museum
Main profile:
Ethnography and local history
Collection(s):

The museum building has three rooms and an exhibition hall built after the museum had opened. The first room presents and exhibition dedicated to the Romanian Enlightenment representative Gheorghe Lazăr (1779 - 1823), the founder of the Romanian language school. The exhibition includes: photographs of the documents attesting the birth and death of Gh. Lazăr, his education periods, photographs of buildings where he lived, as well as of his collaborators and continuators; original documents - the first pages of the three manuals elaborated by Gh. Lazăr: "Mathematical Arithmetic", "The Correct Trigonometry" and "Grammar"; books that belonged to Gh.... Lazăr, donated by Onisifor Ghibu to the museum; publications, jubilee medals, other items dedicated to various Gh. Lazăr birth and death anniversaries. The second room comprises Avrig folk art exhibits, costumes and domestic industry items. The third room shelters a typical Avrig interior. The exhibition hall displays glassware manufactured at Avrig from the end of the 19th century to the present day, and periodically the painting Camp exhibition organized at Avrig every two years, as well as other occasional exhibitions (traditional crafts, folk art, paintings, folk glassware).


County:
Sibiu
Locality:
Avrig
Address:
Strada Gheorghe Lazăr nr. 3
Postal code:
555200
Access:
E 68; by train Avrig Station; close to Evangelic Church and Brukenthal Park
Time table:
Tuesday - Thurday: 15.00 - 17:00;
Saturday: 9.00 - 15:00 (on demand)
Fax:
0269.524.401; 0740.120.970
E-mail address:
Administrative subordination:
Avrig City Council
Importance:
Local
Founded:
1979
Museum code:
7166100
Contact person:
Maria Grancea
Position:
Custode
Classified :