{"id":35239,"date":"2025-05-20T16:09:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spotlight-timisoara.eu\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=35239"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:37:06","slug":"noaptea-europeana-a-muzeelor-2025-sute-de-participanti-in-muzeul-thenic-upt","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/spotlight-timisoara.eu\/en\/eveniment\/noaptea-europeana-a-muzeelor-2025-sute-de-participanti-in-muzeul-thenic-upt\/","title":{"rendered":"European Night of Museums 2025 at the Polytechnic University of Timisoara: Over 400 visitors and hundreds of participants in free guided tours in the UPT Technical Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On May 17, 2025, the Polytechnic University of Timisoara, through the UPT Technical Museum and the ID\/IFR and Digital Education Department, Multimedia Center and together with the cultural project Spotlight Heritage Timisoara were part of the program European Museum Night 2025. <\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also offering a program of guided tours, the UPT Technical Museum came alive throughout the evening and invited visitors to discover the fascinating history of information technology. Over 400 people came to see MECIPT-1 - the first Romanian university computer (1961), as well as the latest virtual reality and mixed reality applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event was designed for all ages, offering participants the chance to interact with engaging edutainment applications developed by UPT students and professors within the Spotlight Heritage Timisoara project. A major highlight was the latest Spotlight Heritage Timisoara virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (AR\/MR) Spotlight Heritage Timisoara virtual reality (VR\/MR) applications, through which the audience could explore a complex real-virtual world, using state-of-the-art digital technologies to showcase Timisoara landmarks and national heritage objects from the collections of the National Museum of Banat, a partner in the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The UPT Museum brought together a wide range of participants, from enthusiastic children and curious youngsters to seniors eager to reminisce, as well as a group of young people from social welfare services, who explored the exhibits with fascination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitors included Ion Cot\u00e2rl\u0103<\/strong>, based in Detroit, a former student of the Computer Department of UPT (class 1970-1975), an effervescent period marked by the development of MECIPT. Mr. Cot\u00e2rl\u0103, who had the privilege of knowing Vasile Baltac, but also Iosif Kaufmann and to practise on MECIPT during their studies<\/strong>, before a long career at the computing center of General Motors, visiting Timisoara, found the opportunity to share precious memories about the pioneering Romanian computer science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Visitors also discovered unique digital installations combining art and technology, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n