The Zosim Oancea Priest Glass Icons Museum

How to reach us By car: Drive to Sighisoara / Medias and follow the map below By train: From Bucharest take the train to Sighisoara (duration approx. 5h, cost 67RON/15EUR). There are 4 direct trains ( 6.am; 12 pm; 7 pm ; 9 pm). * Some international trains also stop in Sighisoara for instance trains departing from Vienna (Austria) and Budapest (Hungary). * Pick up from train station can be organized for 8EUR/person. By airplane: Closest airport is TARGU MURES International Airport. Pick up can be organized from the airport for 50EUR (for 1-2 persons) or 25EUR/person ( > 2 persons). SIBIU International Airport - pick up can be organized for price of 75EUR BUCHAREST International Airport: pick up for groups can be organized in advance. Please contact us for more details.

Some say, in Transylvania, time travel is posibile. To us, Transylvania is “home” and that’s why we feel responsible to be welcoming hosts and to share with our guests its nature, its customs, its history, its food, its legends, its people. We will show you all of this on the original cultural riding tours concept. Villa Abbatis Equestrian Center is part of a much wider project and its history goes back to spring 2011. We offer cultural day trips and riding holidays on horseback as described on our website. Reservations by appointment only

HOȘMAN DURABIL este o asociația pentru susținerea dezvoltării a satului Hosman și a regiunii Văii Hârtibaciului. Dorim să motivăm localnicii și tinerii din spațiul rural în dezvoltarea lor educativă și culturală. Pentru noi, conservarea patrimoniului construit și cultural precum și creșterea calității vieții în zona rurală sunt factori importanți. Legătura dintre istorie și zilele noastre ne acordă o șansă pentru viitor. Echipa asociației se ocupă, în primul rând, de complexul „Moara Veche” cu brutărie, moara, fierarie și alte meșteșuguri precum evenimente culturale.

Ferma Scoala Cornatel este in primul rand un centru educational. Un loc in care cei mici, si de ce nu si cei mari, pot interactiona cu toate rasele de animale pe care le avem. Ferma-scoala este o asociatie non profit pentru protectia animalelor si pregatirea acestora pentru a interactiona cu copiii. Este un concept relativ nou in Romania, insa foarte popular in alte tari, in special in Marea Britanie, unde gradinitele si scolile l-au imbratisat cu entuziasm, ca pe o alternativa la invatamantul clasic. Animalele domestice si pasarile de curte, pe care copiii le vedeau pana acum doar in manualele scolare, devin aici parteneri de joaca, iar copiii vor fi fericiti sa le vada in realitate, sa le hraneasca sau sa le mangaie. Aici, alaturi de personalul fermei, ii vom invata pe copii ABC-ul convietuirii cu natura, cunoasterea plantelor si a animalelelor. E un loc in care va veni cu drag si unde va reveni cu placere, pentru ca aici poate invata distrandu-se.

Apfelhaus - Cisnădioara, Michelsberg

The permanent exhibition of Romanian Art was opened in the halls of the Blue House on November 25th, 2009. The exhibition circuit follows the painting evolution in Romania during the 18th – 20th century, based on chronologic and stylistic elements on display. The exhibition concept comparatively and synchronically emphasizes the representative artists of the national art and what it is specific to the Brukenthal collection: Transylvanian painting background (one of the richest of the country) completed with highly valued works of the modern and inter-war Romanian painting, until after the middle of the 20th century. Thus, the selection underlines the influences which the European art had over the national art, the interferences of the two artistic environments but also its specificity / originality. Without ignoring the creation of the Transylvanian painters Johann Martin Stock, Franz Neuhauser, Mişu Popp, Carl Dörschlag, Arthur Coulin or Octavian Smigelschi, who overreach with the charm and the unprecedented picturesque of their works, the new exhibition, based on the criterion of value, offers to the visiting public established works created by the following artists: Theodor Aman, Nicolae Grigorescu, Ion Andreescu, Ştefan Luchian, Hans Mattis-Teutsch, Corneliu Mihăilescu, Gheorghe Petraşcu, Theodor Pallady, Nicolae Tonitza, Alexandru Ciucurencu, Corneliu Baba, Ion Ţuculescu

The Brukenthal Museum is a special institution because it is the first museum established in Romania and Central Europe, in 1817. It owes its existence to one of the most important personalities in Transylvania: Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, the governor of the province in the second half of the eighteenth century.  The Brukenthal Palace and the Baron's collections are the core of today's Brukenthal National Museum, its gates opened to the public since its founding by the testament of its founder.  A visit to the museum is not limited to a single building and to a unique specialization: it becomes a journey presenting multiple aspects of the past and the present, in their metamorphosis. A metamorphosis mirrored into a wide array of objects displayed on 10,000 m2 of exhibitions, of which 5,500 represent new and recently refurbished spaces.  Initially displaying the European painting collection of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal in a single building, today the museum hosts a great diversity of valuable collections in nine buildings. Five of them are palaces built at different times: the earliest building (with foundation elements from the 13th century) is part of the architectural complex hosting the History Museum, while the latest is from 1901, hosting the Contemporary Art Gallery.

The Steam Locomotives Museum was inaugurated in Sibiu on August 23rd, 1994. The collection activity of the most valuable steam locomotives of the Romanian railway network started since 1991. Today over 30 steam locomotives, ploughs and steam cranes that crossed the Romanian railway over one hundred years ago are made available to the public. The exhibits were built during 1885 and 1959 at Domeniilor Reşiţa Factory, 23 August Factory and Malaxa Factory of Romania, Schwartzkopff Factory, Orenstein & Koppel Factory, Borsig Factory of Berlin, Mavag Factory of Budapesta, Skoda Factory and others, including in Austria, Sweden and USA. Among them there are locomotives with wide track spacing and for narrow-gauge railway, the so-called funicular railway (narrow-gauge railway trains, which used to cross mountain areas). Two of these locomotives are functional and used on various occasions. On December 31st, 2000, the locomotives were declared, by order to the minister of culture, treasury patrimony, being protected by the law.

Inaugurated in 2007, within “Friedrich Teutsch” Culture and Dialogue Centre, the A.C. Evangelic Church Museum of Romania presents a panorama of the Augustan Confession (Lutheran) Evangelic Church history in Romania, as well as a of the community and religious life of the Transylvanian Saxons. Located on the 1st floor of Teutsch House, on a surface of approximately 400 sm, the permanent exhibition is structured in chronological and thematic sections as follows: - Arrival of German colonists in Transylvania; - Fortified churches of the Transylvanian Saxons; - Lutheran Protestant reform; - Community life joined by the church; - Church and school, priests and masters; - Sacral art; - From counter-reforms to the watershed of the millennia. The exhibition ends with a glimpse to the future from the perspective of the situation occurred after 1990: the Church in diaspora. The treasury of the museum included works of the most famous goldsmiths of Transylvania. A particular attraction is the special collection of dolls dressed in festive Transylvanian Saxon costumes that differ according to geographical region and wearer’s age.