The Deva Museum. Arch over time - Iosif Vasile Ferencz

Contents

FOREWORD

FOREWORD AT THE ROMANIAN EDITION

I. THE BEGINNINGS

I. 1. First step. The founding of the History and Archaeology Society of Hunedoara County

I. 2. Téglas Gábor’s personality

I. 3. Administrative approaches regarding the organization of the Society

I. 4. Sequences from the museographic and scientific activity of the museum

I. 5. Sequences from the publicistic activity of the members of the History and Archaeology Society of Hunedoara County and of the museum

I. 6. The activity on archaeological sites

II. AFTER THE UNION

II. 1. The Deva Museum in a new era, aiming for “the development of science and the promotion of general knowledge”

II. 2. The scientific activity of the museum in the first decade after the Union

II. 3. When a world has faded and another is just dawning: Mallász Iosif and the rebirth of the Deva Museum

III. BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR II

III. 1. The scientific and museographic activity in the 4th and 5th decades of the 20th century

III. 2. Octavian Floca – the scientist and the man

III. 5. The evacuation of the National Museum of Antiquities to Deva

IV. THE MUSEUM DURING THE PROLETARIAN REGIME

IV. 1. New challenges – the museum during the proletarian regime

IV. 2. The main exhibition: the archaeological museum

IV. 3. Propaganda and mass education

IV. 4. Archaeological research at the Deva Museum in the 7th–9th decades of the 20th century

V. DEPARTMENTS

V. 1. The library and the librarians

V. 2. Department of Natural Sciences

V. 3. “Aurel Vlaicu” memorial museum

V. 4. Museums in Zarand

V. 5. Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art Orăștie

V. 6. Archaeological Museum of Sarmizegetusa

VI. THE MUSEUM DURING THE LAST DECADE OF THE 20TH CENTURY

VI. 1. A period of new changes

VII. THE MUSEUM AT THE BEGINNING OF A NEW MILLENNIUM

VII. 1. A new era

VII. 3. Diverse collections, valuable items

VII. 4. Perspectives on the development of the museum at the beginning of the millennium