MuTRA, Historical Gallery of Transylvania, opens
The first public museum built from scratch in Romania in which all the essential functions for the storage, conservation and display of cultural heritage have been designed and implemented (…)
The investment is financed through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and from state budget funds. The new museum was built on a site of more than 15,500 square metres, near Cetatea Fetei (…)
Here we have living proof that, for us, development means, first and foremost, education and respect for heritage. And this museum connects generations: our generation, past generations and those to come. (…)
The design was provided by the architecture practice UNITH2B (arch. Hildegard Brandl, arch. Anca Brandiburg) and construction was carried out by the joint venture of FAR Foundation, UNITH2B and Termomont. (…)
The building materials are drying and stabilising gradually, and the temperature and relative humidity are reaching the values needed to keep the heritage safe. For this reason, we chose not to display original cultural objects at the museum’s inauguration. (…)
The MuTRA museum, designed by the architecture practice UNITH2B, starts from the geometry of sculpted, faceted cubic forms, set naturally on the sloping site. Their materiality is inspired by fired earth: brick made from local clay, in warm Siena tones (…)
