Sighet Museum: Room 68 – Black
As on the First Floor, the punishment cell has been reconstructed. Here in Sighet, as in other prisons, inmates regarded … Read More
Sighet Museum: Rooms 54-58 – “Gheorghe I. Brătianu: A Historian in History”
In an impressive display, the photographs, documents, and genealogical tree reconstruct the great historian’s educational background, illustrating the important role played by … Read More
Sighet Museum: Room 53 – Intelectual life in prison
In this room are collected some of the object that alleviated moments of loneliness and monotony in prison. The prisoners made … Read More
Sighet Museum: Room 52 – Women in prison
This is one of the museum’s most striking rooms. Besides mixed prisons, there were also prisons exclusively for women, Mislea, Mărgineni, … Read More
Sighet Musueum: Room 51 – Poetry in prison
The poetry transcribed in this room – an infinitesimal part of those thought, transmitted and memorises in the prisons of … Read More
Sighet Museum: Room 50 – The Piteşti Phenomenon
Between 1949 and 1951, the destruction of society’s elites was on the verge of completion: intellectuals, diplomats, priests, officers, magistrates, the … Read More
Sighet Museum: Room 49 – 1956 – The Student Movements in Romania
For the communist bloc, the year 1956 was marked by the Hungarian uprising, repressed through the brutal intervention of Soviet troops. … Read More
Sighet Museum: Room 48 – Anti-communist resistance in the mountains
One of the museum’s most important rooms is dedicated to the anticommunist resistance movement in the mountains. The map of Romania … Read More
Sighet Museum: Room 47 – Deportations to Bărăgan
On the night of 18 June 1951, the largest deportation in contemporary Romanian history commenced, after that carried out in January … Read More