National Museum of Ethnology and Natural History
The National Museum of Ethnology and Natural History ( Romanian: Muzeul Național de etnografie și istorie naturală ) is located in the Moldovan city of Chișinău .
history
In October 1889, on the initiative of Baron Alexander Stewart, the first agricultural exhibition in Bessarabia took place. This resulted in a museum for agriculture , then the museum for zoology , agriculture and handicrafts . From 1926 the institution was called the National Museum of Natural History Chișinău , from 1937 Regional Museum for Bessarabia , from 1940 Republican MSSR Museum , from 1957 State Museum of History and Local History and from 1983 State Museum of Local History . The museum has had its current name since 1991. Despite the numerous restructurings in its history, the museum has preserved two specific themes - the study of the nature and culture of Bessarabia.
The museum building, which is still in use today, was built between 1903 and 1905 according to plans by the architect V. Tsyganko. Since its inception, the museum has developed into an important scientific and cultural center, which has achieved a certain degree of awareness not only in the Russian Empire , but also in other European countries. In 1906, the region's first botanical garden was laid out near the museum building and it still exists today.
Since the National Museum of Ethnology and Natural History is the oldest institution in its field, it was involved in establishing most of the other museums in Moldova. Under the patronage of the museum, a museum complex with a collection of Moldovan handicrafts was created in the village of Ivancea in Orhei district . However, this was closed again due to financial difficulties, only the half-renovated museum building is left.
Collections
The museum has geological , paleontological , zoological, entomological , archaeological , ethnographic and numismatic collections. It contains many valuable and sometimes unique exhibits, such as a skeleton of the Deinotherium gigantissimus , archaeological finds from Moldovan villages or a collection of carpets from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The museum has a scientific library and conducts its own research.
In 1994 the permanent exhibition “Nature. Human. Culture ”, which is dedicated to the relationship between man and nature in different phases of history, the development of natural resources and ecological issues.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 1 ′ 24.1 ″ N , 28 ° 49 ′ 12.1 ″ E