The “Franz Binder” Museum of Universal Ethnography is a department of C.N.M "ASTRA" SIBIU. Inaugurated in 1993, the "Franz Binder" Museum is the first and single museum of extra-European ethnography in Romania.
The museum is organized in a historical monument building, built in the Neo-Gothic style between 1865 and 1867, initially as the headquarters for the Small Craftsmen Association and having various other functions over time. After its restoration in 1989 it became the headquarters of the "Franz Binder" Museum.
The collections of the “Franz Binder” Museum of Universal Ethnography were constituted in the 19th century by means of donations and acquisitions from travelers or owners of such items: Franz Binder, Andreas Breckner, Karl Meliska, Carl F. Jickeli, Artur von Sachsenheim, Herman von Hannenheim, Gustav Adolf Schoppelt, Alfred Capesius, W. Schonhut, A. Schwabe, G. A. Seraphin, Emerich Schuleri, Hans Mallik, Rudolf Nussbacher, Christine Schuster, Helene Fischer, Wagner von Wetterstadt and others. Most of them were members of the Association of Natural Sciences in Ardeal (Siebenburgische Verein fur Naturwissenschaften), which functioned during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.
Coming from all the corners of the world – North Africa and the springs of the Nile, China, Japan, Oceania, Asia Minor, Brazil, Lapland, Australia etc.
Starting in 1993, some of the very important exhibits of the old exotic collection are included in the permanent exhibition of the “Franz Binder” Museum  entitled “From the culture and art of the peoples of the world”: the Egyptian mummy donated in 1907 by consul Hermann von Hannenheim and particularly the series of Nilotic weapons from the "Franz Binder" collection.
The collections were enriched after 1990 by means of successive acquisitions, exchanges or donations. This is what happened in the case of the Congo collection purchased from Violeta and Cătălin Rang from Bacău, a special ex-presidential collection of presents, including objects coming from outside Europe; the Japanese traditional toys obtained by means of a collection exchange with the Museum of Toys in Hyogo; the traditional folkloric costumes of minorities in China, donated by the Embassy of China in Bucharest; the collection from Ecuador; the Kate Kerr donation of Indonesian objects (2000) as well as the donation from the Embassy of Indonesia in 2003 etc.
The collections of the "Franz Binder" Museum (approx. 3000 exhibits) are divided into “old” ethnographic collections composed of exhibits donated during the second half of the 19th century and “new” collections which entered in the museum’s patrimony after 1990.
The oldest collections are among the most valuable ones. They come from various parts of the world – the African continent being widely represented – and they were mainly collected on the field by members of the local and regional community and then donated to the Sibiu Association of Natural Sciences in Ardeal.
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ADDRESS: Piaţa Mică Nr. 11

Tel: 004 0269202424

E-mail: binder@muzeulastra.ro

Web: http://binder.muzeulastra.ro

Opening: October to May Tuesday-Sunday 9.00-17.00 June to September Tuesday-Sunday 10.00-18.00

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Håkan Jorikson @ 16/11/2021, 18:15
Dear colleague
I have been directed to you from Alexandru-Ilie Munteanu at Brukenthal Library concerning A S von Sachsenheims book “From Transylvania to Spitzbergen”. Do you have that book?
I am interested in eventual comments/notes on his visit to Danes Island in 1896.