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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Between July 5 - July 7, 2024, from 09.00 - 18.00, the Open Air Museum in Dumbrava Sibiului hosts the Hungarikum Days event. The main attraction of the event will be the Cooking Contest on Saturday, July 6, where 28 amateur teams will prepare different types of goulash and other dishes [...]
On 5-6 July, between 11:00 - 17:00, the ASTRA Museum organizes a new event with a pastoral specific, within the project "Food and shelter in the mountain world. Models of resource use and environmental adaptation in pastoral civilization", financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration. This time, the guests will be the Horses from Rășinari, [...]
From July 12 to 14, 2024, the Open Air Museum in Dumbrava Sibiu is hosting the 7th edition of Vinfest - Sibiu's only festival dedicated to wine, where participants will be able to enjoy over 100 varieties of authentic tasting wines, each with its own unique story! Dozens of participating wineries from Romania [...]
From July 18 to July 21, 2024, the Open Air Museum in Dumbrava Sibiului hosts the 27th edition of the national phase of the Olympiad "Traditional Artistic Crafts". The event is organized by the ASTRA National Museum Complex in partnership with the School Inspectorate of Sibiu County. The project - "Traditional Artistic Crafts" Olympiad - is financed by the Department of [...]
Between 19-23 July 2024, the ASTRA Museum organizes the 3rd Edition of the International Workshop Heritage Conservation: Care of collections and vernacular houses open to the public. This event is part of the mission of development and continuous training for students and specialists in the field of cultural heritage conservation, at the [...]
From 24 to 28 July 2024, the ASTRA Museum organizes the event ASTRA Multicultural, now in its 9th edition. This year, the ASTRA Multicultural program includes interactive handicraft workshops, educational workshops for children (carpentry, wood painting), music and dance workshops, the Festival of Traditional Multiethnic Music and Dance & Memory of Traditional Multiethnic Instruments, a multiethnic gastronomic marathon [...]
From 2-4 August 2024, the ASTRA Museum organizes the event Târgul Frumos. Ceramic. Useful. Ceramics in Siberian urban culture, in the Country Fair area. Twenty-six pottery craftsmen will take part, who will hold interactive and demonstrative pottery workshops, as well as experimental workshops on modeling, decorating and firing traditional pottery and clay. Potters [...]
Between August 7 - August 11, 2024, from 11:00 - 17:00 (break from 13:00 - 14:00), the ASTRA Museum, within Animă ASTRA, proposes a series of workshops, as follows: Workshop for the realization of archaic tools for food preservation/storage - August 10-11, 2024 | Goiești-Vidra (Apuseni Grove) Farmhouse During the workshop [...]
On Saturday, August 10, 2024, at the Country Fair, the ASTRA Museum is hosting the Tomato and Horticultural Biodiversity Festival. This event is organized in collaboration with the group Seeds with Soul, as part of the Country Fair Garden and Vegetable Landscape 2024. The Tomato and Horticultural Biodiversity Festival will take place in the form of a seed fair [...]
