Cseri Miklós: Néprajz és muzeológia, Tanulmányok a népi építészet és a múzeumi etnográfia köréből (Studia Folkloristica et Ethnographica 51. Debrecen ,Szentendre, Debreceni Egyetem Néprajzi Tanszék, 2009)

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of the Museum the monuments (of social history, economic history, architectural history) are preserved and presented in accordance with the lifestyle and the ways of life. The permanent exhibitions of the characteristic buildings justify both the middle-class identity and demands of the region's inhabitants and their difference from the rural tangible culture. EXPERIENCES GAINED FROM DISMANTLING A DWELLING HOUSE IN TARCSAFALVA The authors work with the Hungarian Open Air Museum in Szentendre and responding to the request of the Museum of Szekelykeresztür in Transylvania, they helped to document and to dismantle a dwelling house and to transport it to the museum. The blockhouse stood in Tarcsafalva (former county of Udvarhely, today in Romania), on the banks of the Konyha brook. Inscriptions with texts and dates were to be found in abundance in the house, which were completed with further inscriptions in the course of the dismantling work. Quotations in Latin were carved above the kitchen door and in the rooms, while the main beams of die rooms were decorated with incised Hungarian words. We came to know that the house was built by the 26 years old carpenter, György Szilveszter in 1780. The master carpenter used to work in the construction of churches at the end of the 18'

1' Century. During the dismantling the history of the dwelling house was roughly revealed. It has been erected in 1780 with the same foundation and structure that we found during our work. They were never changed, as the original dates on the main beam and on the door of the back room refer to simultaneity and the walls cany no traces of later additional constructions. Smaller changes were carried out on the roof (the wooden roof was replaced by tiles) with the purpose to reinforce the roof structure. The modernisation of the windows with stomach lining of die cattle and of the doors took place probably in the second half of the 19'

1' century, they stayed however on their original place. The former plankcases of doors were replaced by case-frames made by joiner with the exception of the kitchen door. At the time of setting up a porch with banister and creating an entrance to the cellar from the yard, the access to the cellar from the porch was removed. The first significant change in the heating system was the moving of the oven from the kitchen outside to the yard and at the beginning of the century, even the tiled hearth in the room was abolished. The earthen floor of die back room has been renewed and raised several times and was covered finally with planks together with the kitchen door. It remained an open question for us when exacdy the stone foundation under the house and the cellar were built, because we did not find sufficient evidence that these were older then the house. This work of dismantling was for us especially instructive: it was the first opportunity for the team of specialists of the Hungarian Open Air Museum of Szentendre, to carry out fieldwork and research in Transylvania. Our team could collect immediate experiences and the documentation of the building (measuring data, drawings, photos and videos) and the data of the collection of analogies ennched our archives. The knowledge we gained here will be useful for us when preparing die setting up of the Transylvania region in our museum. The revealing of the circumstances of dismantling activities and research is important for the future. The translocated and furnished dwelling house in the compounds of the museum is accessible for visitors from autumn 1997. THE WESTFALIAN OPEN AIR MUSEUM IN DETMOLD According to a resolution of Westfalia-Lippe Federal State passed in 1960, it was in an area of roughly 80 ha in the vicinity of the Teutoburg Forest at Detmold that a museum 404