ASTRA National Museum Complex
"ASTRA" National Museum Complex (Romanian: Complexul NaĊ£ional Muzeal "ASTRA") is a museum complex in Sibiu, Romania, which gathers under the same authority four ethnology and civilisation museums in the city, a series of laboratories for conservation and research, and a documentation centre. It is the successor of the ASTRA museum that has existed in the city since 1905. Its modern life started with the opening of The Museum of Folk Technology now The "ASTRA" Museum of the Traditional Folk Civilization in 1963.
Read more about ASTRA National Museum Complex: History, Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization, Museum of Universal Ethnography, Museum of Transylvanian Civilisation, Museum of Saxon Ethnography, Departments, Projects
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