The Church of Horea – a heritage for the future. Valuing an 18th Century architecture monument through Virtual Reality

Project facts

Project promoter:
Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography(RO)
Project Number:
RO-CULTURE-0008
Status:
Completed
Initial project cost:
€129,266
Final project cost:
€126,775
Donor Project Partners:
NUDA AS(NO)
Other Project Partners
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca(RO)

Description

The Cizer church, built by Horea (Vasile Ursu Nicola, 1731-1785), located in the Romulus Vuia National Ethnographic Park, the open-air section of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, was restored within the project "Restoration-preservation and putting into value of the Cizer and Petrind churches "funded by the EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2017, carried out by the Cluj County Council in partnership with the Transylvanian Ethnographic Museum and the Northern Urban Design Association. The present project will lead to a higher level of valorisation of this monument through the innovative techniques of virtual reality, for a thorough exploration of the painting, structure and techniques of construction as well as for the recovery and exhibition of the original inventory of the monument. The specific objectives of the project are: documenting the techniques of the virtual reality of the church in Cizer and presenting it in an innovative exhibition that will be organized in the Pavilion of the Museum (Reduta Palace); restoration and preservation of 57 movable cultural goods related to the history of the target; dissemination of project results. The project has innovative character and model value by promoting a defining objective for Romania''s cultural heritage, the images realized within the project having a high degree of detail according to the virtual visitor''s wish. Project elements can be viewed using the headset located in the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania, making it possible to see them virtually by all audiences.

Summary of project results

The project involved the digitization and exposure through virtual reality of the Cizer church, located in the National Ethnographic Park “Romulus Vuia” in Cluj-Napoca, open-air section of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, as well as the digitization, restoration and conservation in order to exhibit a number of 57 cultural goods from the collections of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, which were part of the Cizer church inventory. The project also contributed to the professional development of 35 persons. 

Summary of bilateral results

The donor project partner was involved in the professional training activity and the design of the innovative exhibition.

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