Countess Ottilia Wass, the Maecenas of Museum Life in Cluj
Countess Ottilia Wass, the Maecenas of Museum Life in Cluj

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents some considerations regarding the legacy of Countess Ottilia Wass, one of the most outstanding cultural personalities of Cluj from the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century. Together with Count Imre Miko, founder of the Association of the Transylvanian Museum in Cluj (1859), Ottilia Wass was a great Maecenas of cultural life in Transylvania. At the beginning of the twentieth century she bequeathed to the Transylvanian Museum Association her home in the center of Cluj, as well as over a thousand decorative art objects (furniture, porcelain, glass, Oriental objects, etc.), which today are preserved in the National Museum of Transylvanian History in Cluj‑Napoca.

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