Golden trophies

Golden trophies


Location:


Str. Şcoala de Înot, Nr. 4, Sibiu, România

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About

Exhibition: Golden trophies
Location: online, „A. von Spiess” Hunting Museum 
Duration: April – September 2022
Curators: Dr. Ghizela Vonica, Dr. Nicolae Trif, Iulia-Maria Muntean, Ana-Maria Păpureanu
Text from the curators:
The „August von Spiess” Hunting Museum was opened to the public in 1966 and reorganized in 1981.
The museum was modernized between 2006 and 2007, and reopened to the public on February 25, 2007 as the August von Spiess Museum of Weapons and Hunting Trophies.
The valuable heritage of the museum, originally called the "Hunting Weapons and Trophies Exhibition", consists mainly of local and African hunting trophies from three major collections: the collection of Colonel August R. von Spiess, the collection of forestry engineer Emil Witting (1741-1787) and the hunting trophies collection of the Transylvanian Society for Natural Sciences in Sibiu ("Siebenbürgischer Verein für Naturwissenchaften zu Hermannstadt").
Many of the trophies in the „A. von Spiess” collection were awarded medals at national and international competitions.