ASTRA National Museum Complex

"ASTRA" National Museum Complex is a museum complex in Sibiu, Romania, which gathers under the identical authority 4 ethnology and civilisation museums inside the town, a chain of laboratories for conservation and research, and a documentation centre. It is the successor of the ASTRA Museum that has existed in the metropolis considering 1905. Its present day existence started with the hole of The Museum of Folk Technology in 1964, now The "ASTRA" Museum of the Traditional Folk Civilization.

The Romanian cultural association ASTRA determined in 1897 to establish a museum of Romanian civilisation as a "shelter for keeping the beyond". The museum became opened in 1905, beneath the supervision of Cornel Diaconovici, in what is these days the ASTRA Palace in Sibiu, built through a public subscription with the specific purpose of creating a museum. In 1929, in Cluj, an open-air Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania become created, and in 1932 the Village Museum turned into opened in Bucharest by means of Dimitrie Gusti.