Vizitatorii muzeului Sighișoara Veche în perioada de început 1899−1917
Visitors to the Old Sighișoara Museum in the Early Period 1899−1917

Summary/Abstract: The oldest cultural institution in Sighișoara is the History Museum housed in the Clock Tower, the symbol of the town. It opened its doors to the public on 25 June 1899 and it remains open to this day. An important source related to the beginnings of the Sighișoara museum is its first Visitors Signing Book. It was used in the first decades of the institution’s existence. According to the dating of the signatures, it would fit into the chronological horizon between 1899 and 1918. Unfortunately, due to its unrestricted exhibition in the 1940s and 1970s, there are also signatures of visitors from this period.Beyond these inadequacies, it represents an important source, which mentions the motto of the institution, the first visitors on 25 June 1899, headed by the mayor of the city, Friedrich Walbaum and a number of other local personalities of that time. We have signatures of anonymous and famous visitors who crossed the threshold of the institution between 1899 and 1918. Among these signatures we find those of Professor Friedrich Brewerth, the future scientist Hermann Oberth, the collector Karl Haldenwang or the scientist Alexander Tzigara-Samurcaș. The presence of signatures from 1914–1918 also shows that the institution functioned during the difficult years of the First World War.

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