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COVER STORY 14
New cultural promises: facelifting Romania’s museums In a year when no one knows for sure how many people in the cultural field have lost their jobs and how many cultural outlets are going to survive the pandemic, the Culture Ministry has continued to make promises of supporting the local cultural scene. Several museums across the country have started to work on facelifts and upgrades, all due to be completed in 2021. By Oana Vasiliu receive an additional RON 30 million from the authorities.
PRESERVING HERITAGE
City of Sighisoara
MAJOR UPGRADES
baroque hardware, gold-plated ceilings, Vene-
The Omnia library in Craiova, Dolj County,
tian mirrors, and carved panels.
will go through a major restoration, according to recent statements by officials in the
NEW OPENINGS
Culture Ministry. The library owns approxi-
Though it’s been more than 30 years since
Sighisoara’s Historical Center, which is cur-
mately 30,000 volumes from various fields:
the Romanian Revolution, no museum has
rently a UNESCO heritage site, recently fin-
literature, literary history and criticism,
been dedicated to this event until now. This
ished studies related to the Medieval Citadel
linguistics, history, sociology, medicine,
is about to change, however, as Timisoara is
restoration project – developed by historians,
philosophy, art, sports, geography, manage-
going to host the National Museum of the
archaeologists, and landscape architects. The
ment and marketing, economics, dictionaries,
Anti-Communist Revolution – presenting the
documentation serves as part of the interna-
encyclopedias, and a collection of periodicals.
entire communist period as well as the Revo-
tional auction which, for the first time in Ro-
The building that hosts the Library, known
lution itself. Recently, an additional invest-
mania, will be held according to regulations
as the Plesia House, is considered to be an
ment of EUR 15 million has been approved for
used in UNESCO and International Union of
architectural landmark, being included on
the project by the Council of Europe Develop-
Architecture (UIA) architectural competitions,
the Historical Monuments List. Built in 1890
ment Bank, according to Agerpres.
for a complete restoration of the citadel.
based on a project by French architect Albert
The Culture Ministry will also finance the
Another heritage building in Sighisoara,
Galleron, it is one of Craiova's most impres-
development of the Timisoara National The-
the Monastery Church, is currently under
sive buildings. It features an eclectic style,
atre’s decoration factory, a unique endeavour
restoration and will only be finished next
with Neo-Classical and Neo-Baroque interior
in Romania, which will design decors for any
summer, due to the pandemic crisis. So far,
elements, with stained glass windows in the
cultural institution in the country, following
the costs have reached EUR 1 million, with
style of the Romanian School, with geometric
an investment of RON 5 million. Furthermore,
the money being provided by the Evangelical
and floral motifs, an interior staircase and
the theatre will open a second hall and will
Church.
