Cultural Manifestations Organised by the Astra Museum For the Campaign "Europe, a Unique Patrimony"

The Interethnic Cultural System From Transylvania, Mediator Of European Cultural Relations

• Theme: Interethnic cultural system from intra-Carpathian Transylvania and Banat - mediator of European cultural relations.
• Asim: Discovery and knowledge of ethnocultural identities of each ethnic group premise for a European cultural dialogue.
• Objectives:
  1. Save, conserve, and valorise the mobile and immobile patrimony belonging to the culture and civilisation of co-inhabiting ethnic groups from Transylvania and Banat.
  2. Interdisciplinary research (ethnology, anthropology, sociology) on interethnic groups co-inhabiting history, on rural civilisation and culture from Transylvania and Banat.
  3. Use of different ethnic group's patrimony, as support for interethnic cultural dialogue.
  4. Change of cultural patrimony no matter of its source into didactic material, into an educational instrument.
• Context:
  1. Minorities and majority cultural patrimony represents a fundamental element for a better knowledge and mutual understanding. Museum is modelling them in the spirit of feeling the differences and perception of these differences. Thus museum becomes an instrument mediator for interethnic and European cultural relations.
  2. A museum is both a way of knowledge and also communication, and it has functions on defining individual and cultural identities - acting in double sense:
     • cultural catalyst in communities in which it works.
     • an institution generating relations, links and ways of dialogue.
• The triangle museum - school - civil society acts as a united complex and educates the communitarian and civil aspect - permitting the individual to surpass the particular cultural identities and enter into a European cultural system.
• A museum offers opening to universality, surpassing segmental cultural opinions through an interdisciplinary approach. Museum offers knowledge of identities, of what is specific and common, what are the similitude and differences for different ethno-cultural profiles. Museum aims to bring nearer people and cultures and presents the unity of European cultural values.
• Activities:
  1. Educational programmes inside and outside of school designed for a mutual knowledge - promoting ethno-cultural values in an educational system. Developing educational projects inside and outside museum (educational function).
  2. Museum works as a lab and research instrument for the interethnic dimension of village from Transylvania and Banat (scientific function).
  3. Museum is redefined as a cultural context centred on interethnic dimension, considered from social, cultural, historical and religious point of view (communitarian function).
  4. Museum is context for communitarian dialogue, in its ethnical and cultural diversity.