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ROMANIA  -  PETROŞANI

 01.10.2019

Documentation visit to the Museum of

Dacian and Roman Civilization  in Deva

The beginning of the Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilization in Deva is related to the founding of the Society of History and Archeology of Hunedoara County, in 1880.

     The Devean Museum operates in the Magna Curia building, known as Bethlen Castle, an old architectural monument located at the foot of the Deva Fortress, in its southern part. The antiquity, importance and beauty of this baroque building was the reason why it was included on the List of Historic Monuments of category A.

     Since 1998, the building has undergone a restoration process, completed in 2006 and which was intended to restore as much as possible the former splendor of the palace, making it a point of attraction for visitors and thus to represent a emblem of the city.

     Since 2012, in the courtyard of the Magna Curia Palace, there is an open-air Lapidarium that houses a collection of monuments, belonging to the eras: prehistory, Dacian and Roman, from archaeological research in Baia de Cris, Dacian fortresses in the Orastie Mountains, Dacia Capital Romans - Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, Micia, Germisara, Aquae or from accidental discoveries. The Lapidarium area was later completed with two other bodies housing Roman monuments grouped on two major themes "Roman Civil Architecture and Roman Funerary Architecture". 

     The predominant pieces of the museum's patrimony are constituted in collections of prehistory, Dacian, Roman, early medieval, medieval era, a collection of knives and firearms, modern and contemporary military equipment, collections with pieces of modern and contemporary history. To these are added a collection of art and an ephemeris, as well as a collection of natural sciences. The ethnography collections can be found at the museums in the territory: Orăştie and Brad.

Among the oldest collections that formed the basis of the Devean museum, is the numismatics, consisting of treasures, solitaire coins, medals, decorations, tokens and banknotes. The Department of Natural Sciences, established in 1967, has collections of paleontology, lepidoptera, minerals, beetles, mammals, current mollusks, a herbarium and the documentary library, considered at the end of the nineteenth century one of the most important in the county, includes current specialized book, old Romanian and foreign book, as well as Romanian and foreign periodicals.

Today, on the ground floor of the Magna Curia building, you can visit the basic exhibition of Natural Sciences, entitled "Past and present in Hunedoara nature" as well as a room dedicated to the history of the nineteenth century in Hunedoara County, called "Noble atmosphere of the nineteenth century." In the other spaces are organized various temporary exhibitions such as "Treasure objects from the collections of the Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilization in Deva" or the one dedicated to the bronze mold discovered at Sarmizegetusa Regia. At the same time, behind the Magna Curia building, a Lapidarium has been arranged, open since 2012, open to the visiting public.

The Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilization in Deva is also involved in several large-scale projects, one of them being entitled "Route of the Roman Emperors", the site of Sarmizegetusa Ulpia Traiana being selected, along with four other such objectives in the country, to be included in this international project that aims to diversify the European tourist offer and increase the visibility of the lower and middle Danube area as an attractive and sustainable destination.

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