ContentsFOREWORDFOREWORD AT THE ROMANIAN EDITIONI. THE BEGINNINGSI. 1. First step. The founding of the History and Archaeology Society of Hunedoara CountyI. 2. Teglas Gabor s personalityI. 3. Administrative approaches regarding the organization of the SocietyI. 4. Sequences from the museographic and scientific activity of the museumI. 5. Sequences from the publicistic activity of the members of the History and Archaeology Society of Hunedoara County and of the museumI. 6. The activity on archaeological sitesII. AFTER THE UNIONII. 1. The Deva Museum in a new era aiming for the development of science and the promotion of general knowledge II. 2. The scientific activity of the museum in the first decade after the UnionII. 3. When a world has faded and another is just dawning Mallasz Iosif and the rebirth of the Deva MuseumIII. BEFORE DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR IIIII. 1. The scientific and museographic activity in the 4th and 5th decades of the 20th centuryIII. 2. Octavian Floca the scientist and the manIII. 5. The evacuation of the National Museum of Antiquities to DevaIV. THE MUSEUM DURING THE PROLETARIAN REGIMEIV. 1. New challenges the museum during the proletarian regimeIV. 2. The main exhibition the archaeological museumIV. 3. Propaganda and mass educationIV. 4. Archaeological research at the Deva Museum in the 7th 9th decades of the 20th centuryV. DEPARTMENTSV. 1. The library and the librariansV. 2. Department of Natural SciencesV. 3. Aurel Vlaicu memorial museumV. 4. Museums in ZarandV. 5. Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art OrastieV. 6. Archaeological Museum of SarmizegetusaVI. THE MUSEUM DURING THE LAST DECADE OF THE 20TH CENTURYVI. 1. A period of new changesVII. THE MUSEUM AT THE BEGINNING OF A NEW MILLENNIUMVII. 1. A new eraVII. 3. Diverse collections valuable itemsVII. 4. Perspectives on the development of the museum at the beginning of the millennium