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situated in the city centre in the Small Square. A new step in the museum's evolution is planned after the move to its new establishment in the ASTRA Palace, which is now occupied by the Sibiu County
Library. The museum plans to extend its collections so that it can better present the civilisation from Transylvania as a European region, in which many
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association. The first exposition was inside the Museum of
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and in this period it increased the number of houses and buildings. Beginning in 1971, it started to orient itself towards folk civilisation by also including elements of folk life such as houses and community buildings. Since 2001 the museum has functioned as a museum complex, also comprising the
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in 1990, the Saxon collections were given over to the new establishment along with all other ethnology-related collections. In 1997, the Emil
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is specialised in documentary film production. It evolved from the museum's audio-visual department. It organises a biennial documentary film festival, an important one in the
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donated a collection of over 100 ethnographic objects gathered during his travels and expeditions to various parts of the world. The newer collections contain artifacts from
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has specifically modern connotations) was established in and was opened to the public in 1967. Until 1990 the museum worked as a branch of the
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holiday in the middle of August. Also, permanent and temporary exhibitions can be seen in a special pavilion inside the museum.
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at the middle of the 19th century. A particularly remarkable piece in the museum is an ancient
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