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Sibiu wants to show Europe a place where Jewish, Calvinist, Catholic, Romanian, Hungarian and Saxon culture coexist peacefully, Sabin Adrian Luca, director of Sibiu's Brukenthal National Museum, said at the opening of the exhibition.
The fifty large-scale colour photographs, together with six enlarged archive photographs, show Sibiu's rich and varied history through its buildings and public spaces, from the Stairway Tower and the Town Hall Tower to the Haller Bastion, the 15th century Evangelical Church and the Baroque Brukenthal National Museum, which opened in 1817, even before London's National Gallery or Berlin's Altes Museum.
The photographs were exhibited in Venice in the autumn of 2007, before travelling to Budapest, then Szeged. Next, the photographs will go to the Romanian city of Jimbolia, then on to Austria and Monaco. In 2010, the exhibition will return to Hungary and open in Pécs, which will carry the European Capital of Culture title for the year.
During the year it was European Capital of Culture, Sibiu drew some 2 million tourists, including 350,000 museum-goers.
Author: Éva Ibos
