ARTmania Festival, in collaboration with the ASTRA Museum Complex and the Brukenthal National Museum, complements the concerts on the festival days with a series of cultural events and creative activities.
At ARTmania Festival 2024, fans will be able to listen to some of the most popular artists of the moment in the Great Square in the old citadel of Sibiu: Borknagar (NO), Korn (SUA), Igorrr (FR), Spiritbox (SUA), Satyricon (NO), The Flower Kings (SE), Lavina (SRB), Alpha Q (RO), Awake the Demons (RO) and TAINE (RO).
The third festival day (Sunday, 28th July) stands under the “ARTmania in Context” sign and will bring together for the fans music and interdisciplinary collaborations on the stage of Altemberger House – History Museum: Alternosfera (MD), REVOLTER (RO), Denorm (MD) and SPD (MD).
Music meets the others arts at ARTmania. 50% discount during the ARTmania festival (26 – 28 July 2024), based on the festival wristband, in the museums that are part of the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu.
To make the cultural experience complete, between concerts, festival wristband holders will be able to purchase half-price tickets to visit the museums or exhibitions available at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the European Art Gallery (Brukenthal Palace), the Romanian Art Gallery, the Museum of History (Altemberger House), the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Pharmacy or the “August Von Spiess” Hunting Museum.
Music meets traditions again. FREE access, based on the festival wristband, to the House of Arts, within the Museum of Traditional Popular Civilization “ASTRA” from Sibiu and to the events organized in the ASTRA Museum.
The ASTRA National Museum Complex (Sibiu Village Museum) continues its cultural partnership with ARTmania Festival, supporting this modern cultural project by granting festival goers free access to spaces that promote Romanian traditions.
Thus, during the ARTmania festival (26th – 28th of July 2024), festival participants have free access to the premises of the Museum of Traditional Popular Civilization “ASTRA” (16 – 20 Pădurea Dumbrava street) and to the House of Arts (21 Small Square – “Casa Artelor”), based on the festival wristband received for the ARTmania Festival 2024 edition.
Festival goers will also be able to attend, free of charge, during the festival days, the events listed below, organized by ASTRA Museum inside the House of Arts and the ASTRA Museum Complex:
ASTRA Museum – House of Arts
Location: Small Square no. 21
Schedule: Wednesday – Sunday, between 10:00 – 18:00
The exhibition “Making Transylvania. People and crafts.”
Anchored in the transitional period of the second half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, the exhibition invites festival-goers to discover the importance of crafts within communities, the often unseen work of ordinary people, and explore the stories of creativity and resilience that each object transmits them.
Transylvania is a land that has survived for centuries on the basis of its own resources. The shift from medieval guilds to modern, more accessible and progressive associations set the stage for a technological evolution that reshaped production practices and improved the quality of life in and around cities. Beyond the form of artistic expression, crafts continued to significantly influence the cultural landscape of Sibiu and Transylvania, as a European region. The objects selected from the museum’s collections, some exhibited for the first time, do not shine either in spectacularity or in unseen beauty. But they illustrate the dedication and ingenuity of the common people. Those who, through their crafts and traditions, with effort, skill and care, took care of their households and families and shaped the towns and villages of Transylvania, contributing significantly to the local identity. Today, they all bear their mark.
Activities and workshops for children
ASTRA Museum – The open-air museum in Dumbrava Sibiului
Summer museum education program: The school in the traditional village
Location: The open-air museum, Etno Tehno Park, Ticera School
Schedule: 10:00 – 18:00
Workshops for making traditional masks and Workshops for making leather bookmarks:
The young participants will have the opportunity to learn how to reuse patches of all kinds and turn them into masks that “drive away evil spirits”. The interactive and energetic workshop will take place under the guidance of Ana Negoiță.
Musical show “Jazz for Kids” by the State Philharmonic
Schedule: Saturday, 27th of July, between 11:00 – 12:00
Location: Open-air museum, Etno Techno Park amphitheatre
Duration: 45 – 60 minutes
Activities and workshops for youth and adults
Exhibition: Heights. Inspiration Aspiration
Location: Multicultural Museum Pavilion, main entrance
Schedule: Wednesday – Sunday, 10:00 – 18:00
It presents visitors 122 traditional shirts sewn between 2018 and 2024, based on the plates from the albums made by Elisa Brătianu (1943) and Elena C. Cornescu (1906).
“They are part of the great European family of pleated neck shirts, opulent, full of silk and lustre, reflecting East and West alike. They gather in them hundreds and thousands of local and distant stories, preserve the dialogue between old and new cultures. They are part of the universal patrimony and it is hard to believe that anyone who gets to know our high-waisted shirts can remain indifferent. They will remain a source of inspiration, and that’s great, because the world needs beauty.”
Event: ASTRA Multicultural, 9th edition, July 26 – 28, 2024
Location: The open-air museum, various areas of the Country Fair
Schedule: 10:00 – 20:00
Participants will have access to a traditional multi-ethnic music and dance festival, a fair of traditional products and interactive and representative workshops with authentic craftsmen, a multi-ethnic gastronomic marathon, in which the adaptability of food to every season and situation in the life of the community is presented – a model to be adapted in the present for reducing food waste and for learning how to reuse objects for other purposes. More than 200 popular artists and craftsmen from Romania, representatives of the Hungarian, Saxon, Lipovan, Ukrainian, Tsiptsi and Roma communities will participate and animate various locations in the open-air museum in Dumbrava Sibiului.
Thematic routes – We discover cultural diversity
Location: The open-air museum, the Path of Ethnic Minorities
The ASTRA Museum invites ARTmania Festival participants to discover what cultural diversity means. For those who want to understand how people of different ethnicities, cultures or religions lived together in the villages of Romania, this activity is the perfect option.
Small, seemingly mundane things give visitors the opportunity to walk around and discover new aspects of the museum life. Participants are offered ten thematic routes to discover cultural diversity through play with the help of flowers, hats, fir trees, wheat, fairs, fences, stones, sticks, wheels or through times.
ASTRA Museum Complex in Sibiu:
Address: 16-20 Pădurea Dumbrava street (Dumbrava Forest street), Sibiu
Schedule: Monday – Sunday, 10:00 – 20:00
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