ASTRA VR is a museum experiment that uses VR technology, sound installations and comics to make the heritage of traditional culture more accessible. The stake that the ASTRA museum in Sibiu assumed was to innovate the ways of museum expression and to get closer to a new generation of visitors. For the two households (from Sebeș and Rășinari), 7 old household objects / installations were selected – especially objects related to food preparation, but now obsolete. These objects would hardly be known today, and their name, as sonorous as it is difficult to associate with their function.

For example: blidar, salt shaker, lint, grain peel, wax mash, cane, crusher, press, are names that remain indistinguishable for a young urban audience.
For these 14 objects, several stories were created to help visitors understand how they were used at the beginning of the last century, what the atmosphere of a household was like at that time and how relevant all these objects were in the lucrative context of that time.

The stories were delivered on three distinct levels:
a. a comic strip that gives information about the functions of some of these objects or about the habits and processes associated with them.
b. A sound installation, in the form of a fictional documentary in which three characters dialogue, or tell some scenes from everyday life, in which the mentioned objects also appear.
c. 3d animations, which introduce the visitor to the world of the village’s love stories, the much more complex relationships of the rural communities.