Opening of the traveling exhibition at the Maihaugen Museum in Lillehammer
In parallel with the on-site exhibition, between January 2022 and August 2022, the preparatory stages for the opening of the exhibition in Norway were carried out, through collaboration between the Romanian Academy, the Cluj-Napoca Branch and Bjerkaker LearningLab. The partner institution Bjerkaker LearningLab undertook all the necessary steps to be able to organize, within the Maihaugen Museum in Lillehammer, the opening of the traveling exhibition.
The opening event of the traveling exhibition of the project “FRAGMED – A Transylvanian puzzle: reconstructing medieval culture from codice fragments” took place on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, at 15:00 at the Maihaugen Museum in Lillehammer. Sturla Bjerkaker, the Norwegian coordinator of the project, Kristina Skåden, curator of the Lillehammer exhibition and Kjell Mariul Mathiesen, Head of Department at the Lillehammer Museum, spoke at the opening event of the exhibition. About 20 people participated in the event.
The inauguration of the traveling exhibition of these restored medieval manuscripts also marks the beginning of the final stage of the implementation of the project entitled FRAGMED – A Transylvanian puzzle: reconstructing medieval culture from fragments of codices, through which the partners benefit from non-refundable funding from the SEE Grants 2014-2021 in the amount of 128,775.57 Euros.
The exhibition opened in the Maihaugen Museum gives the 21 manuscript fragments from Romania international visibility, in order to draw attention to the need to save and preserve such objects with European relevance. The main exhibition, which also contains the restored manuscripts, was already inaugurated in February 2022, in Cluj-Napoca. Maihaugen presents a smaller version of the exhibition in situ and includes exhibition panels, two documentary films on the history of the manuscripts and the restoration process, digitized examples of manuscript fragments and books or photographs of the restoration work, as well as a multimedia installation explaining the history of each manuscript.
