The exhibition "Zabrenicele Bucovinei" (traditional Bukovinian headscarves), highlighting two major collections and the work of two key figures in Romanian museography, Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcas and Ion Stefureac, will open on Friday at the New Hall Gallery of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (MNTR).
Both individuals were notable for their extensive documentation, mapping, and cataloguing of ethnographic and artistic items, significantly contributing to the establishment of museum collections that became the core of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant and the Museum of Wood Art in Campulung Moldovenesc, MNTR stated in a Facebook post on Tuesday, agerpres reports.
Their collections of traditional headscarves from across Bukovina - known locally under various names such as zabrenice, ministerguri, or panzaturi - have provided a solid foundation for research into the evolution of head adornment in the region.
Most items date from the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, a period when wearing such headpieces was customary in traditional communities, associated with celebrations and life milestones. From the 1930s, the headscarf took on a primarily ceremonial role, worn at weddings by godmothers and mothers-in-law.
"In the ritual marking the change in a bride's status, the item appears during the moment called carpa [replacing the veil, editor's note], when the godmother would cover the young woman's head with a cloth and a headscarf. After the 1950s, these scarves were preserved in dowry chests as witnesses to a fashion that had lost its community and ceremonial function. Thanks to the refinement of weaving and decoration techniques, they have been carefully conserved, both in traditional households and in museum collections, where they continue to represent remarkable artistic testimony of a craft with deep cultural roots," MNTR noted.
The vernissage, marking the conclusion of the "Golden Hands: The Semicentennial of Romanian Restoration" project, is organised in partnership with the Museum of Wood Art in Campulung Moldovenesc.
The exhibition will be open to visitors until 11 January 2026, from Wednesday to Sunday, between 10:00 and 18:00. It will be closed on Mondays, Tuesdays, and public holidays.
AGERPRES National Press Agency, alongside other institutions, is a media partner of MNTR.
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