Astra Museum

On Saturday, August 31, 2024, starting at 11 am, the ASTRA Museum organizes the Rural Communities Fair. Episode: the commune of Racovița. This edition of the Rural Communities Fair will promote the commune of Racovița, with the villages of Racovița and Sebesu de Sus, settlements in the Olt Country, at the foot of the Făgăraș Mountains. ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS: the Racovița flute group, the vocal group "Flori [...]

From 3 June to 29 September, from 10.00-18.00, in the open-air museum, in the Etno Tehno Parc area, the program "School in the traditional village" challenges you to discover the secrets of old crafts and techniques of processing natural materials, used in the past by our grandparents. From August 26 to August 31, 2024, the Education and [...]

Ten years of history in which ASTRA Museum has grown a community dedicated to the traditional hat and shirt in Sibiu. Since 2014 and until now we count 11 editions that have dedicated the story of the most beloved piece of folk wear, called ie or traditional shirt. In Sibiu we find it under the name of ie cu umăraș, ie [...]

On the weekend of 22-23 June, from 11:00 to 17:00, the ASTRA Museum is organising a new event with a pastoral focus, as part of the project "Food and shelter in the mountain world. Patterns of resource use and adaptation to the environment in pastoral civilization", financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The exhibition circuit in the Pastoral Sector has been updated, being [...]

A series of activities will take place in the ASTRA Museum, in the area of the Country Fair, from 22-24 June, starting at 10:00. On Saturday 22 June 2024, starting at 10 am, the day before Pentecost, the Country Fair area will be enlivened with traditional dishes from the sheep farming communities of the Sibiu Marginimea. [...]

From 15 to 16 June 2024, from 10:00 to 15:00, the ASTRA Museum is organising a series of gastronomic activities and craft workshops with mountain-pastoral specificities, in the area of the Country Fair. As part of the Country Fair Programme, the gardens in the meadow of the museum are tended and sown with all the vegetables and greens that were in the [...]

From 31 May to 2 June 2024, ASTRA Museum is organising the 17th edition of the Toy Fair. The event offers visitors of all ages the opportunity to experience traditional crafts, toys made of natural and recyclable materials. Basically, childhood will be celebrated through play, workshops, theatre and good times. The event programme includes games, toys, [...]

On 20-24 May 2024, the ASTRA Museum, an institution whose actions are made possible with funding from the Sibiu County Council, is organising through the ASTRA Centre for Heritage the event ASTREI Conferences. Restoration Workshop - 8th Edition with the following sections: painting, wood and polychrome wood, ceramics and metal, leather-white, textiles, cultural goods on paper. The event brings together 53 [...]

ASTRA Museum has decided to join the National Network of Romanian Museums for the activities related to the "Night of Museums" on Saturday, May 18, but also with the most important resource of the museum sector - the human resource! The open-air museum in Dumbrava Sibiului will be open until 12 o'clock (at night), with a [...]

From 17 May to 14 June 2024, the ASTRA Museum, an institution whose actions are made possible by funding from the Sibiu County Council, is organising through the ASTRA Heritage Centre the event SALOANELE ASTREI 2+2 - 9th Edition, an edition dedicated to excellence in the visual arts. The exhibition event will be opened on Friday, 17 May 2024, at 13.00, at the ASTRA Centre [...]

The 6th edition of the Ecotourism Fair will take place from 17 to 19 May 2024, in the area of the Country Fair and the Pivelor Alley of the ASTRA Museum, within the "Years of Hiking" Programme. The timetable of the fair is 12:00 - 18:00, Friday and Sunday; from 12:00 - 24:00, Saturday, 18 May 2024, starting at [...]

From 16 to 17 May 2024, the "Traditional Artistic Crafts" Olympiad - county phase will take place in the open-air museum in Dumbrava Sibiului. More details and rules can be found at the link.