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46 <strong>Sibiu</strong> - <strong>Young</strong> <strong>since</strong> <strong>1191</strong><br />
The Museum of the Evangelic<br />
C.A. Church in Romania<br />
„The Teutsch House”<br />
www.teutsch.ro<br />
Address: No. 30, Mitropoliei Street<br />
Tel: 004 0269 206 730<br />
Opened: Monday – Friday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.<br />
Fees: adults 8 lei; pupils, students, retired persons,<br />
persons with disabilities 5 lei<br />
Inaugurated on July 14 th , 2007 within the<br />
“Friedrich Teutsch” Center for Culture and Dialog,<br />
the Museum of the Evangelic C.A. Church in<br />
Romania constitutes an important space of remembrance<br />
and the experience accumulated<br />
over centuries of existence of the Evangelic<br />
Church of Augustan Confession. One of the highest<br />
interest spots of the exhibition is represented<br />
by “vasa sacra” – the thesaurus composed of<br />
pots and various other valuable objects which were used to celebrate the<br />
Holy Communion. These were created between the 14 th and the 18 th century<br />
in the workshops of the Transylvanian goldsmiths, among which master<br />
Sebastian Hann, originating in <strong>Sibiu</strong>. The works of art of Transylvanian goldsmiths<br />
and silversmiths include chalices decorated with the technique of<br />
the filigree enamel, the so called “modo transsilvano”. Documentary films<br />
and recent interviews about the history and the present day status of the<br />
Transylvanian Saxon population living in the villages of Southern Transylvania<br />
are available to viewers in the multimedia area of the exhibition.
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