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The museum has its headquarters in an architectural monument of the
19th century - The Petrichevich-Horvath Daniel House (Petrichevich was
a patron of the arts and literature) which was built in neoclassic
style. The museum has been open to the public since 1937, putting
forward one of the largest and most well organized sections of antique
history in the country, a valuable collection of paintings, a ceramics
collection from medieval and modern times, a medieval terse and an
ethnographic collection. The present collections of the museum
contain over 400,000 cultural possessions from the basic exhibition
that demonstrate the historical evolution and the degree of
civilization in the Transylvanian lands from prehistoric ages up to
the 1st of December 1918, illustrated by different objects from
archeological findings, medieval and modern ceramic collections, tin,
glassware, weaponry, photographs and documents, books and newspapers,
etc. In 1999, The Thesaurus also opened for the public, where, in its
two exhibition rooms, the visitors can find over 4,600 gold and silver
pieces: Eneolithic idols, antique and medieval monetary thesauruses,
gem jewelry, medals and decorations, but also domestic objects forged
out of precious metal. Interesting facts: •The Egyptian Collection
– an authentic mummy from the 3rd century B.C. in its painted wooden
sarcophagus •The stove tiles collection – contains approximately
700 pieces – entirely preserved or fragmentary – from the
14th-19th centuries, and also two stoves. One of them is built in a
classicist style and it can be found in the permanent exhibition and
while the other one in a folk style. •Oriental weaponry – battle
axes and pistol-swords, crossbows and even a cannon-ball tube. •The
furniture in different Western European styles – proof that the
nobles kept pace with the European fashion – may constitute an image
of a luxurious interior, complete with rugs, trousseau chests and
embroideries.
The Vivarium was built between 1998 and 2001 out of the Babes-Bolyai
University and the Biology and Geology Faculty funds. It contains
approximately 57 animal species. When it opened in 2001, it only
sheltered a collection of reptiles and amphibians. Currently,
alongside the reptile collection, the Vivarium also hosts 10 fish
species, 9 micro mammal species and 6 bird species, out of which we
can mention the Puff Adder, the Rainbow Boa, the leopard gecko, the
Nile monitor, the chinchilla, the Dobrogea turtle, the salamander etc.
Entry fee: Adults: 5 RON Children, students: 2.5 RON Biology
students, military personnel, disabled: free
The Zoological Museum is integrated in the Babes-Bolyai University
Patrimony and it consists of several scientific animal collections,
currently containing over 300,000 exhibition pieces. The exhibition is
accessible to the public, to biology students and to specialists. The
exhibition pieces are preserved in different ways: stuffed, dried, in
preserving liquids and as skeletons. The pieces are arranged in
phylogenetic order, reflecting the evolution of the animal world from
simple to complex, and as dioramas, displaying the interrelations
between the species that form the animal world. Thematic
insectariums are also exhibited, showing the variety of butterfly
sizes in wet and dry seasons, the match of sizes and color between the
butterflies and the environment in which they live in, and mimesis at
butterflies and warbles, as well as stages of the formation of the
silk wire at the silk butterfly (Bombix mori). There are showed
aspects of the thicket birds’ life with the types of nests that
these birds are building, as well as the ensemble image with the fauna
of the Bărăgan Plain. The cabinet with humming birds draws the
attention through the variation of the changing colors according to
the light that falls onto their bodies; in the focused image of the
area in which the bigwigs (Oriolus oriolus) are exhibited, one can see
the difference of color between the male and female, the place where
the nest is built, and the process of egg-laying. Another
representative ensemble image shows the struggle for survival in
winter in a forest form our region and it represents an explicit piece
of well documented space. Entry fee: Adults: 5 RON Children: 2,5 RON
Students: 2,5 RON Biology students, military personnel, disabled:
free entrance
The Municipal House of Culture of Cluj-Napoca is a dynamic and modern
institution, with the purpose of promoting a rich cultural and
educational offer for all groups of age and socio-professional.
Authorized nationally as a provider of professional formation, The
Municipal House of Culture gives certificates of qualification and
specialization, recognized on the labor market.( PC operating,
Restaurant-Attendants, Cooks, Communication, psycho social Counseling
Techniques, Trainer)
The Roman Catholic Church "St. Apostles Peter and Paul"
The Neo-Gothic church located at the eastern end of the Boulevard
December 21, 1989 was built on the site of the parish church of the
old village of St. Peter. Although it appears that the current
building no longer preserves the architectural elements of the old
church, its patron saint suggests that the first edifice of worship in
the village had already worked before the great Tartar invasion
between 1241-1242. The first document certifying the existence of the
church in the village of St. Peter dates from the second half of the
fourteenth century. During the time of Reformation, in the last years
of the seventh decade of the sixteenth century, the church was taken
over by the Unitarian denomination serving the needs of this community
until 1716. In the latter year, the edifice of worship - with the
parish church of St. Michael – re-enters in the possession of
Roman Catholic denomination. In 1725 the church was donated to the
Minorite Order, its members settled in the re-founded convent in the
south of the place of worship // halidom. Subsequently, in the late
1770, after the construction of the Minorite church on the current
Heroes Boulevard and the adjacent convent, the order moves to the
centre of the city and its old buildings in the village of Saint Peter
are turned into nursing home and hospital. The church, dedicated now
to the patron saint of the poor, St. Elizabeth, will be used as a
chapel of these new social work institutions. Due to some structural
problems, the old church was demolished. In the period 1844-1846 the
present church was built according to the projects of the most
important representative of romantic architecture in Transylvania, the
Cluj architect Anton Kagerbauer. Around this time, the one-floor
building in neo-Gothic style of the asylum was built in the south of
the church. The edifice of worship is a church-room of neo-Gothic
architecture. The church is flanked by buttresses and is provided with
a polygonal closing choir with a vela type ribbed vaults imitating
network vaulting. The main architectural motif of the façade is
the high tower built in front of the nave. The neo-gothic furniture is
preserved inside the church, its most important parts being the pulpit
and the main altar.
The latter comes from a workshop in Munich and is decorated with the
painting of St. Elizabeth and the statues of the two main disciples.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the choir was decorated
with wall paintings made by the Cluj artist János Stein and in
1926 the nave was also decorated with decorative paintings. The high
relief placed on the facade of asylum renders the most famous scene
from the life of St. Elizabeth, that it distributes food to the needy.
St. Peter's church assembly includes two public Baroque monuments,
relocated to the west and east of the building, on the occasion of
systematization of the city: the old Baroque gate of the parish church
of St. Michael and the Column of St. Mary's the Protector. The Baroque
gate of the church of St. Michael was placed in this location in 1899.
It was built between 1743 and 1747 by the parish priest János
Bíró to commemorate the great plague of previous years.
The central part of the gate is enhanced by the presence of the statue
of the city's patron saint, St. Michael, situated above a niche
harbouring the statue of St. Rosalia, and two statues of saints
protectors of the silent partner - St. John the Baptist and John the
Evangelist.
On the sides, there are placed the statues of the most important
antipestilant saints - St. Francis Xaverius and St. Sebastian on the
left, St. Rochus and St. John of Nepomuk on the right. Gate sculptures
come from one of the most important Baroque sculpture workshops in
Transylvania, that of Johann Nachtigall. Behind the church choir rises
another votive monument of Cluj Baroque, Column of Mary the Immaculate
(St. Mary the Protector), moved here in 1959 in front of Holy Trinity
Roman Catholic Church.
Since 1901 the church of St. Peter works as a parish church serving
the spiritual needs of the Catholic community in the area.
