Oltean, Daniela: Muzee de Etnografie din judeţul Satu Mare (Satu Mare, 2010)
Satu Mare: Municipiu reşedinţă de judeţ
The center of Satu Mare Territorial Museum, houses at the second floor the main exhibition of the ethnographical department, which was inaugurated in Decmber 1992 wishing to be a reflection of the ethnocultural features from Satu Mare county, using for this reason the most representative objects from our ethnographical heritage. The first hall is dedicated to the folk costume, the costume expressing the best way the ethnical character, of a people, giving a distinct note, characteristic for each ethnographical zone. The second and the third hall reflects the main and the oldest occupations of the natives who lived here: agriculture and animal breeding, and as auxiliary occupations are presented: fishing, viticulture, fruit growing and beekeeping. The fourth hall is the hall of trades, because peasant craftsmen were those who modelled clay, processed wood, made ploughs, created the first tools and installations which represented a basis for the development of technique and industry. A special place in this hall is occupated by pottery, the greatest part of it coming from the famous pottery center from Varna. In the fifth hall is illustrated one of the most intense household activities, the processing of textile fibres, beside their rich range of products with decorative and utilitarian role. These activities became veiy representative for the manifestation of folk art as time was passing by. The last hall presents elements which are specific for the folk architecture of Satu Mare county. The atmosphere and the milieu is rendered by the arrangement of 4 interiors, characteristic for the ethnographical zones of Satu Mare county (interior from Codru zone, Oaşului zone, and Hungarian and Swabian interiors). All the exhibited objects prove the skill of processing different raw materials. The harmonious distribution of colours and decorative motifs prove the creative talent and the capacity of peasants of joyning useful and beautiful.
