Established in 1997, it
comes to fill up an emptiness felt in the Roumanian museology because
of the reduced representation of the contribution which the Saxons gave
to the forming and enrichment of the Romanian culture in more than 800
years of living in the Transylvanian surroundings.
Its
patrimony contains almost 7000 objects; the "Emil Sigerus"
collection, transferred from the patrimony of the ex-"Carpathian
Museum" (founded in 1885) and the valuable collections belonging
to Julius Bielz, Wilhelm and Gisela Rosa Richter, Carl Engber and Erwin
Ulbrich.
A first permanent exhibition is entitled
"Transylvanian Civilization. The tile trade". Through this,
a huge patrimonial nucleus of an extraordinary documentary value will
be put into account.
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Unenamelled tile from the XVth
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Top
of the oven tile, 1726, from Vintu de Jos, Alba county 
Enamelled
tile, XVth century, Sibiu
Cahla
smaltuita, sec. XVIII, Brasov 
Enamelled
tile, XVIIIth century, Draguseni, Brasov county
Enamelled
tile, XVIIIth century, Brasov
Top
of the oven tile, Saschiz, Mures county
Enamelled
tile, XIXth century, Saschiz, Mures county 
Departments:
Museum of Traditional Folk
Civilization "ASTRA"
- Open-air Museum -
Address: 2400 Sibiu, Calea Rasinari
Phone: 0269/242419
"ASTRA" Museum
of Transylvanian Civilization
Address: 2400 Sibiu, Piata Mica, nr. 11
Phone: 0269/218195
"Franz Binder" Non-European Ethnographical Museum
Address: 2400 Sibiu, Piata Mica, nr. 11
Phone: 0269/218195
"Emil Sigerus" Ethnographical Museum of Transylvania Saxons
Address: 2400 Sibiu, Piata Mica nr. 12
Phone: 0269/218195
Fax: 0269/218060
E-mail: astra@zappmobile.ro