PREZENTARE
Institutul de Etnografie și Folclor "Constantin Brăiloiu" a fost fondat în anul 1949, ca un institut de cercetări etnologice. Principalele sectoare de cercetare ale institutului sunt: folcloristică, etnomuzicologie, etno coreologie, ethografie, arhivistică.



"Constantin Brăiloiu" Institute of Ethnography and Folklore was founded in 1949 as an ethnological research institute. It consists of several sections in the following fields: folkloristics, ethnomusicology, ethno choreology, ethnography, archives.

The Romanian Academy started the first audio-visual folk fieldwork collections in 1910. These collections were gathered in sonorous and visual archives belonging to the Ministry of Cults and Arts (1927) and to the Society of Romanian Composers (1928). Since 1949, the funds of the three institutions entered the Collections belonging to the Institute of Ethnography and Folklore.

The Archives has oral culture documents, in sonorous, visual and written forms. There are also collections gathered in mine working communities (exploitation of gold, silver, salt, coal, talc, lime, etc).

The Institute has an annual publication, the Institute’s Year Book: “Anuarul Institutului de Etnografie si Folclor <C.Brăiloiu>”. The research results are revaluated and published in the volumes of the series: National Folklore Collection, the Ethnographic Romanian Atlas, Document. Romanian Folk Archives.