Today, we want to share with you an exciting update about our activity at Muzeon, as part of the DOORS - Digital Incubator for Museums programme. We have recently advanced to Stage II of the programme, together with 19 other European museums.

Harry Brauner (1908-1988), a Romanian-Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist, was born on 24 February, 115 years ago, in Piatra Neamț, Romania. His brothers were the painter Victor Brauner and the photographer Teodor Brauner.

On Tuesday, 6 December 2022, the opening of our new temporary art exhibition, titled "The World through the Eyes of Jewish Artists of the Baia Mare Art School" took place at Muzeon.

Paul Lusztig, the last son of Moritz and Gizella Lusztig, was born in Gyalu (today Gilău, Romania) in 1912. The story of Paul inspired one of the audio guides at Muzeon. His father, Moritz, was a merchant and producer of alcoholic beverages, and his mother, Gizella, was a housewife. Paul started primary school in Kolozsvár (today Cluj, Romania) in 1917.

Nina Cassian (1924-2014), also known as Renée Annie Cassian-Mătăsaru, a Romanian Jewish poet, was born on this day 98 years ago, in Galați, Romania. Besides writing poetry, she also translated modernist works of great writers from many languages, created children's books, composed music, painted, and was a journalist.

Dezső Irányi, or David, was born in 1908 in a small town in Northern Transylvania, but he spent his childhood in Bratislava. When he was a teenager, he moved with his parents to Cluj, where they have successfully integrated into high society. Over time, he started a family, married Viktória Lusztig, with whom he had two children.

Júlia Rosenberger, nicknamed Juliska, was born in Gyalu (today Gilău) in 1908, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her story inspired one of the audio guides at Muzeon.

Andor Lusztig, also called Bandi, the second child of Moritz and Gizella Lusztig, was born in 1908. Bandi married Júlia Rosenberger in 1933, and moved to Cluj for a better living, where their two children, Tibor and Noémi, were born in 1936 and 1938.

Moritz Lusztig was born in 1877. Moritz married Gizella Blum in 1901, at the age of 24, and between 1903 and 1912 they had five children: Ákos, Sándor, who died at the age of one, Andor, Viktória, and Pál.

For the past two months, Flavia Craioveanu, co-founder and director of Muzeon has participated in the first stage of the DOORS incubation programme, together with professionals from other 39 European institutions.