Muzeul Presei „Sever Bocu”

The museum, with an area of ​​about 600 square meters, is named after Sever Bocu (1874-1951), because, according to its initiator, "the leader of Banat has superlatively synthesized the qualities of the reporter (Tribuna - Arad, Romania Mare - Kiev, The Will of Banat - Timişoara), of the entire country, of the political militant ". The collection of the museum includes publications from the first half of the nineteenth century on the territory of Romania and in the diaspora (Bessarabia, northern Bucovina, Cadrilater, Serbian Banat, Hungary, Vienna, Paris etc.), in Romanian, German Hungarian, Serbian, French, English, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Italian, Turkish, Hebrew etc. from different fields (literature, history, medicine, industry, sports, fashion etc.). It has been significantly enriched by the donation made by the Astra Library in Sibiu and is structured chronologically (19th century, 1900-1950, 1951-1989, after 1990), depending on the language in which the publication appeared and geographically - in the country was published in Bucharest, Arad, Timisoara, Cluj, Sibiu, Braşov, Blaj, Iaşi etc.) or diaspora (Cernăuţi, Chişinău, Silistra etc.), being inventoried and highlighted in registers: daily newspapers, magazines, etc. We have the oldest publications on the current territory of Romania. Among our nineteenth-century exhibits are the Romanian Albina (1837, 1839), the first Romanian-language publication in Moldova (Iaşi, 1829), Dacia literary, Albina (Vienna, 1867), Higiena and the school (Timişoara, 1876-1877; , 1878-1880), Dreptatea (Timişoara, 1894-1898, editor Valeriu Branişte), Controla and Gazeta Poporului (Timişoara), Church and school (Arad), Diocese (Caransebeş), Tribuna, Romanian Telegraph and People's Foaia ), Sheet for mind, heart and literature, Magazine Magazine (Oradea), Gazeta Bucovinei (Cernăuţi), Democracy (Ploieşti), Resboi, Timpul, Epoca, Romanian Moft, Santa Teaca and Steaua României, all in Bucharest etc. A significant part of the collection belongs to the publications from 1900-1950: the Romanian people, the Luceafărul, the Royal Foundation Magazine, the Literary Conversations, Transylvania, Parrot Tickets, Thinking, Wheat Grains etc., the great Bucharest daily newspapers (Universul, Curentul etc.); Hope, Timisoara Monitor (1924-1936), Spring (Sânnicolau Mare), etc. Since its opening, the museum has been thought of as a living space, a documentary point for students, students, researchers, etc., a venue for thematic exhibitions, communication sessions, symposiums, book launches, journalism camps .  The collection of the museum is continuously enriched, the sources being subscriptions paid, free subscriptions, donations made by editorial offices, institutions and individuals in the country and abroad.