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Exhibition of Bessarabian carpets staged in Romanian city

21:34 | 28.07.2018 Category: Culture

Chisinau, 28 July /MOLDPRES/ - A mobile exhibition titled, Picture of world weaved in wool. Carpets from patrimony of the National Ethnography and Natural History Museum of Moldova (MNEIN) has been recently inaugurated at the Stefan cel Mare County Museum from Vaslui, Romania.  

Contacted by MOLDPRES, the scientific secretary of the Chisinau-based museum, Varvara Buzila, has said that the exhibition comprised 36 Bessarabian carpets from the 18th-19th centuries. ‘’This exhibition has a double significance: on the one hand, to celebrate the Centenary of the Union and on the other hand – to promote the wealth of the Bessarabian carpets in the Romanian spaces after The traditional techniques of making carpet in Romania and Moldova were included in  UNESCO’s representative list,’’ Buzila noted.  

Attending the opening of the exhibition were representatives of the administration of the two museums – MNEIN director general Petru Vicol, the director of the Stefan cel Mare County Museum from Vaslui, Ramona Maria Mocanu, curators, culture people, etc.   

In their discourses, the speakers evoked the importance of the event, historical and spiritual value of the carpets presented. According to the organizers, the mobile exhibition, Picture of world weaved in wool, which reached the places of the bright victory of Ruler Stefan cel Mare from Podul Inalt (High Bridge) (1475), will be followed by other events.    

Earlier, the exhibition of Moldova has also been hosted by the Cris Country Museum (Oradea) and Ethnographic Museum of Moldova (Iasi, both from Romania).

The exhibition will be opened till 15 August.

(Reporter N. Roibu, editor M. Jantovan)

 

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