The Momârlan’s Museum. (Elena Mălinesc and Petru Gălăţean Ethnographic Collection) (A Case Study)
The Momârlan’s Museum. (Elena Mălinesc and Petru Gălăţean Ethnographic Collection) (A Case Study)

Summary/Abstract: In 2004 Elena Mălinesc and Petru Gălăţean opened the Momârlan’s Museum in the village of Slătinioara, suburbia of Petroşani City that spreads on one side of the Parâng Mountains. The name of the museum suggests what its owners aimed to achieve the reconstruction of the life of Momârlani, the ‘native’ population in the area. The origin of the word ‘momârlan’ is ambiguous, but the Momârlani consider themselves the remnants of the indigenous Dacian population and defined their identity in relation to the ‘barabele’, the foreigners who settled down the Valley once with the opening of coal mines during the Habsburg domination. Nevertheless, it is particularly recently that the Momârlani have restarted to decline their identity and specificity. and capitalise on their heritage.

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