Babes-Bolyai University Museums (Cluj-Napoca)

Night of Museums program: Mineralogy Museum: 18:00 – 23:00 Palaeontology-Stratigraphy Museum: 18:00 – 23:00 Zoological Museum: 12:00 – 01:00 Vivarium: 10:00 – 23:00

Free access

Mineralogy Museum Event title: Mineral Rainbow Address: 1 M. Kogalniceanu Street, Cluj-Napoca (University’s main building, ground floor) Telephone: +40 264 405.300 ext 5121 dana.pop@ubbcluj.ro http://bioge.ubbcluj.ro/MuzeuMin/

The mineral rainbow is the title of the temporary exhibition that will open on this occasion. The exhibits will illustrate causes and diversity of colours in minerals, as well as the colour-based usages of minerals since the beginning of humankind. Beside the new exhibition, adults are invited to get a fresh, chromatic-based perspective on the permanent collections, by following a thematic route. Children will be invited to draw, using mineral pigment-based colours, and to learn more on mineral colours under the supervision of volunteer students, in a dedicated workshop-corner. Partners: Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca; Geology Department of Babes-Bolyai University; PR Department of Babes-Bolyai University

Palaeontology-Stratigraphy Museum Event title: Night of Museums: Temporary exhibition of documents Address: 1 M. Kogalniceanu Street, Cluj-Napoca (University’s main building, ground floor) Telephone: +40 264 405.300 ext 5204 liana.sasaran@ubbcluj.ro www.ubbcluj.ro/ro/structura/muzee/muzeul_paleo.html

The event celebrates 140 years of experience in geological-mineralogical university education in Cluj. The exhibition presents a series of documents (articles, sketches and letters) owned by professors who used to organize and manage the Geology Section and the Palaeontology Museum: A. Koch, I. P. Voitesti.

Partners: Geology Department of Babes-Bolyai University, PR Department of Babes-Bolyai University

Zoology Museum Event title: Animals’ World Address: 5-7 Clinicilor Street, Cluj-Napoca (Ground floor of the Biology Deparment) Telephone: +40 264 595.739 dceuca@ubbcluj.ro www.ubbcluj.ro/ro/structura/muzee/muzeul_zoologic.html

The Zoology Museum invites people to visit its permanent exhibition, which includes animals in phylogenetic order (starting with the simplest structure to the most complex). There´s a particular way in setting up the exhibits: animals are positioned along or against other objects from nature or artificially-constructed backgrounds, aiming a plausible rendition. By this, the exhibition allows an easier display of the wildlife inhabiting the mountain reed of far-off exotic places; or behavioural aspects pertaining to the fight for survival, shelter building or taking care of cubs or other baby animals. The Zoology Museum also presents the “Păsări din Bucovina” (Birds in Bucovina) temporary exhibition, whose didactic approach is provided not only by the naturalised avifaunistical specimens, but also by panels illustrating the biotopoi they originated from. The exhibition is further developed by explaining the difference between the notion of „fauna” and „collection”, as well as presenting the basic methods of avifaunistical research.

Vivarium Event title: Vipers in Romania - Photography exhibition Address: 5-7 Clinicilor Street, Cluj-Napoca (semi-basement of the Zoology Institute, west side) Telephone: +40 264 59.57.39 ext 115 tavicr@yahoo.com www.ubbcluj.ro/ro/structura/muzee/muzeul_vivariu.html

The photography exhibition presents high resolution images and comprehensive explanations for both species and subspecies of vipers in Romania and also information about viper bites and the required first aid.