SPOTLIGHT HERITAGE
SPOTLIGHT HERITAGE
01 / EVENTS & NEWS
Innovative Digital Apps, Timișoara in VR, and Journeys into the Digital World at European Researchers' Night 2026
Timișoara, September 2026 – The Polytechnic University of Timișoara (UPT), through its Department of ID/IFR and Digital Education, together with the Multimedia Center and...
UPT at European Researchers' Night: Nighttime explorations, digital education, experiments, and interactive tours at the UPT Technical Museum. Admission is free.
The Polytechnic University of Timișoara, through its Department of ID/IFR and Digital Education, together with the Multimedia Center and in collaboration with the Spotlight cultural project...
VR Art and Technology Have Taken Over Jecza Park
A multimedia virtual and mixed reality performance, produced in partnership with the Polytechnic University of Timișoara, Timișoara, July 2026 – The Jecza Foundation...
02 / LANDMARKS
03 / ABOUT US
2023
Expo
Giroc Neighborhood - Parallels world
Year 2023 - sense of taste. Excerpts from the Family Diary by Sorina Jecza, visual impressions and information from socialist Timișoara and the Revolution of '89.
The life of the Giroc neighbourhood in Timișoara is complexly illustrated in a metaphor of mirroring the real world through contemporary art, a family diary by Dr. Sorina Jecza Ianovici and introspection on the communist industrialization and the 1989 Revolution through selections provided by the Museum of the 1989 Revolution, images by Constantin Duma.
The life of the Giroc neighbourhood in Timișoara is complexly illustrated in a metaphor of mirroring the real world through contemporary art, a family diary by Dr. Sorina Jecza Ianovici and introspection on the communist industrialization and the 1989 Revolution through selections provided by the Museum of the 1989 Revolution, images by Constantin Duma.
The Taste Sense will be present through chemical taste reproduction experiments, transposing into the material world the taste of coffee, chocolate and wine, the chosen tastes for 2023.
2022
Expo
Cetate Neighbourhood - A world in the mirror
The year 2022 puts the spotlight on the literature and poetry that celebrate Timișoara, doubled by illustrating the allegory of the olfactory sense by capitalizing on the urban myth of the city of roses, which recreates the atmosphere of the Cetate from now and before - an atmosphere that is also transposed virtually, with the help of the latest technologies available. The selection of literary texts collected by prof. univ. dr. Smaranda Vultur and assistant univ. dr. Roxana Rogobete, the memories from the oral history of Timisoara capitalized by the Group of Oral History and Cultural Anthropology are combined with the original poems, created for Spotlight Heritage Timisoara, by the well-known Timisoara poet Robert Șerban.
2021
Expo
Fabric Neighbourhood - Worlds beyond destinies
The year 2021 has as its theme Sight - and brings under the spotlight the economic dimension of the old Timișoara, through the neighborhood of guilds and craftsmen, the petty bourgeoisie, factories and workers concentrated in a multiethnic and multicultural world in the Fabric. The voices that shape these worlds and destinies will come to life this year to recreate the atmosphere of the Fabric neighborhood through a collaboration with prof. Univ. Dr. Smaranda Vultur and the Group of Oral History and Cultural Anthropology, coordinated by her.
2020
Expo
Elisabetin Neighbourhood - A world in a chest
The year 2020 has as its theme Tactile and virtually invites you to relive again the atmosphere of the Elisabetin neighbourhood with us through:
The exhibition in the attic of the Theresia Bastion "Heritage under the spotlight. The Elisabetin neighbourhood and Netti Dr. Diel - A world in a chest" where you rediscover the atmosphere of the Elisabetin neighbourhood from home, through the world of Netti Diel! We invite you to take a virtual seat at "Netti Diel's table" and meet the characters invited to a festive dinner in the 19th century, as well as the protagonists of the cultural life of Elisabetin in a multicultural world, transposed into virtual and illustrated by a series of exhibits from the "Belle Époque" and interwar period, illustrating the public and intimate daily life in old Timișoara.
The exhibition in the attic of the Theresia Bastion "Heritage under the spotlight. The Elisabetin neighbourhood and Netti Dr. Diel - A world in a chest" where you rediscover the atmosphere of the Elisabetin neighbourhood from home, through the world of Netti Diel! We invite you to take a virtual seat at "Netti Diel's table" and meet the characters invited to a festive dinner in the 19th century, as well as the protagonists of the cultural life of Elisabetin in a multicultural world, transposed into virtual and illustrated by a series of exhibits from the "Belle Époque" and interwar period, illustrating the public and intimate daily life in old Timișoara.
2019
Expo
Iosefin Neighbourhood and Valeria Pintea
2019 is the year dedicated to the Iosefin neighborhood, through the exhibition opened at Theresia bastion entitled: The Iosefin Neighborhood and Valeria dr. Pintea - a novel in an exhibition. The daily life of the Iosefin neighborhood is illustrated through the stories of Valeria dr. Pintea (1893-1984), born Chirița. Originally from Lugoj, she married the doctor Vasile Pintea in 1913 and became a resident of Iosefin, Valeria is a fine observer of daily life and a good storyteller, her memories of the neighborhood and the people reaching us through her niece’s pen - Liana Maria Gomboșiu, author of the novel Valeria dr. Pintea (Marineasa Publishing House, Timisoara, 2013). Citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, then of Romania, Valeria is above all one of the many inhabitants of Iosefin.
04 / PARTNERS
Spotlight Heritage Timișoara / Patrimoniul sub reflectoare is a digital cultural initiative of the Politehnica University of Timișoara, realized in partnership with the National Museum of Banat, part of the Cultural Programme Timișoara 2023 European Capital of Culture. Cultural project co-financed by the Center for Projects of the Municipality of Timișoara, Timiș County Council.
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