A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 34. (Békéscsaba, 2011)
Martyin Emília: A magyarországi románok bázismúzeuma
Martyin Emília The Base Museum of the Romanians Living in Hungary - Emilia Martyin - Resume The Trianon borderline having been drawn, a thematic research on the Romanian ethnic minority staying behind in Hungary was started from the mid-20th century, recognizing the fact that an examination of the history and the cultural and folklore characteristics of the ethnic minorities living in Hungary may not be omitted from the researches in Hungary. Several Hungarian historians and ethnographers and museologists have followed with attention the specific cultural aspects of the Romanian population of the settlements in Hungary. With a national catchment area, since autumn 1974, the research on the history and the ethnography of the Romanians in Hungary have been provided for by the Békés county organization of museums. The decision of the Ministry, i.e. that Békés county organization of museums, in addition to being a base museum for the Slovakians, should extend its activities of the kind in terms of the domestic Romanians, may be justified by the fact that Romanians in the largest numbers live in Békés county. Another aspect is that the number of the relics and the data referring to the Romanians in the historical and etnographic collections of Békés county museum organization were scarce up to the early 1970s. Békés county museum organization has been studying the historic past and the popural culture the Romanian communities of Békés and Hajdú-Bihar and Csongrád counties for 4 decades. A task of the organization is to collect and to continuously process ethnographic relics, historic documents and relics of spiritual culture referring to the Romanian ethnic minority living in Hungary. In addition, the organization is also supposed to elaborate and to present and to popularize at exhibitions and lectures the various fields of the history and the ethnography of domestic Romanians. Martyin Emilia Békés Megyei Múzeumok Igazgatósága Erkel Ferenc Múzeum 5700 Gyula, Kossuth u. 17. E-mail: martyinemilia@gmail. com 160
