Ethnographic Museum Badea Cartan - Cartisoara, Transfagarasan

Ethnographic Museum Badea Cartan - Cartisoara - details and images

The museum was founded in 1968. The first objects to the museum have been collected since 1960 by the secretary of the municipality and the local priest. The museum building was donated by Mrs. Frâncu Silvia, daughter of former priest of Vulcan, with the express purpose for building a village museum, which also include a room designed by Badea Cartan.

Badea Cartan was a farmer originally from Cârţişoara (Sibiu), where he was born in 1849. This simple shepherd remained in Romanian history as a union fighter for the Romanians in Transylvania with the Old Kingdom, dedicating her life to this purpose.

At a time when Romanians in Transylvania belonged to the Austro-Hungarian and did not enjoy the rights, Badea Cartan used the most effective weapon: the book. Badea Cartan, who passionately loved books, and Romanian history book, it's been for 30 years mostly mountains, on orders from the heart, bringing the Old Kingdom in Transylvania in the bag, hundreds of Romanian books. Arriving in Bucharest several times, he knew many people of culture, who taught history and especially the idea Romanism Romanians Romanian people. The idea that Romanians understand Romanism arose from the mixture of the Gauls and Romans. Wanting to see with his own eyes were witness moments of history that the Romanian people, Badea Cartan decided to go on foot to Rome. Arriving there, he went Badea Cartan First Column of Trajan.

"How was alone and no one, as he had tonight, sat on the sidewalk and slept at the foot of the Column. The next morning, bystanders, police, journalists, had a revelation: a peasant Corjos, if at the feet of a Column of Trajan. Press in Rome he wrote the next day: "A lowered if the Column: with hair, shirt and cap, with ITAR and his shoes." I was published photograph and were interviewed. "Badea Cartan caused a sensation in Rome, he was invited to political environments, cultural, journalistic in Italy, was received with sympathy and friendship.

Throughout his life he traveled through Hungary, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Egypt, Germany, Jerusalem and many places around the country. If other passengers have dedicated their lives famous expeditions of the desire to discover new territories, or to get rich, Badea Cartan traveled to see his eyes ancestors of the Romanian people and their love for history. Badea Cartan was known, loved, cherished political men, people of culture, patriotic circles in the Old Kingdom.

In 1911, 62 years, Badea Cartan she died, but never got to see the day completing all Romanians. He was buried in the cemetery at Sinaia, past his grave is the following verse: "Badea Cartan completion asleep dreaming of his people here."

The museum contains a collection of glass painted icons of popular artists and Ţimforea Matthew, icons Nicula, Fagaras and Barsa books left over from Badea Cartan, peasant households in the mid-nineteenth century, composed of the house and barn, equipped with specific area and period furniture, a collection of old photographs of costumes representing the nineteenth century and twentieth-century chests made by local craftsmen in the nineteenth century and twentieth-century pottery by master potters in common.

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