National History Museum of Transylvania

Locations: National History Museum of Transylvania – Headquarters History of Pharmacy Collection

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National History Museum of Transylvania Events: Sequences in Time during the Night of Museums at the MNIT Illusion and reflection: Bánffy Miklós’s artistic life; The prehistoric village in Săndulești; Collections and collectors. Clocks from the Gaspar private collection Night of Museums Program: 19.00 - 24.00

Address: Constantin Daicoviciu St., no. 2, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County Phone: +40264.595.677 E-mail: secretariat@mnit.ro www.mnit.ro Facebook

The National History Museum of Transylvania organizes three events for the Night of Museums:

Illusion and reflection: Bánffy Miklós’s artistic life, an exhibition organized by the museum in collaboration with the General Consulate of Hungary in Cluj-Napoca, The National Museum and Theater Institute in Budapest, is dedicated to the personality of Miklós Bánffy (1873-1950), a Hungarian aristocrat from Transylvania who established himself through his activity as a politician, diplomat, and writer.

The exhibition The prehistoric village in Săndulești organized in collaboration with the History Museum in Turda presents a series of novel archaeological materials discovered in a multi-layer site (Neolithic, Aeneolithic, the Bronze Age, the Roman Age) researched along the Transylvania Highway on the territory of the municipality of Săndulești, Cluj County.

Collections and collectors. Clocks from the Gaspar private collection

The collection includes more than 1,000 clocks and watches from various historical periods.

History of Pharmacy Collection Event title: Night of Museums at the History of Pharmacy Collection Night of Museums Program: 19.00 - 24.00

Address: Unirii Square no. 28, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County Phone: +40264.597.567 E-mail: secretariat@mnit.ro www.mnit.ro Facebook

The museum will allow free access and free guided tours in the permanent History of Pharmacy Collection that is on display inside the oldest pharmacy in Cluj, at “St. George”, established in 1573. The uninterrupted succession of pharmacists could be reconstructed, from the eighteenth century until 1949, on the basis of preserved documents. The collection illustrates pharmaceutical activity in Transylvania between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. The most valuable Transylvanian pharmaceutical objects have been donated by professor Iuliu Orient (1869-1940), whose collection was first put on display in 1904 at the Transylvanian Museum and has been enriched ever since.

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