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Collections
The National Museum of Archaeology and History of Moldova owns more than 200,000 objects of historical, documentary, and artistic value, some of which belong to the national treasury of culture. All the Museum items are organized in collections by the following fields: archaeology – 17,376, numismatics – 53,870, documents – 23,800, photographs – 15,753, books – 8,503, periodicals – 22,608, arms and armour – 1,560, textile collection – 4,400, household items – 6,273, technical equipment – 702, art – 6,972, philately – 35,807, history – 11,773.
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Archaeological Collection |
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The collection consists of 17,376 objects (the core fund), which came from archaeological excavations, random finds, acquisitions, donations, and transfers and date back to the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron Ages, Roman Era, pre-feudal period, and the Middle Ages.... |
Collection of Historical Exhibits
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It contains the objects of historical and memorial significance, dated from the 19th – 20th centuries, which are destined to recompose the ambience of bygone centuries, to reconstruct in exhibitions the atmosphere in which Moldavian cultural, historical, and political figures of the past lived and worked.... |
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Collection of Arms and Armour |
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The Museum owns authentic weapons of the 16th – 20th centuries, of western, eastern, and Russian (for the most part) origin. The collection consists of all the types of cold steel and fire-arms: offensive, defensive, missile, and hunting weapons.... |
Numismatic Collection
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The collection consists of: Coins of diverse times and countries of issue. There are ancient coins of Greek, Getae-Dacian, and Roman origin, medieval coins of local and foreign issues (the Ottoman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the United Provinces, Hungary, Poland, etc.); series of modern coins... |
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Collection of Photographs |
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The collection includes 15,753 objects and consists of: Photographs (originals and copies), taken in photo studios in Moldova, Romania, Russia, and other European countries during 1860 - 2010, which can be attributed to many genres: photo portrait, landscape, ethnographic, documentary, and artistic photography, etc.... |
Book Collection
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The Museum owns the collection of books that includes 8,503 volumes of the core fund, published in the 17th – 21st centuries in Moldova as well as in the different typographical centres of Europe. The collection consists of old and rare books (693 volumes of the 17th – 19th centuries) and newer ones (20th – 21st centuries). ... |
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Collection of Periodicals |
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The collection consists of 24,608 periodicals of the 19th – 21st centuries, some of which being unique. The most significant titles are the following: SANKTPETERBURGSKIE SENATSKIE VEDOMOSTI (The St Petersburg Senate Gazette), 1810, 1823, 1828, 1839, 1841, 1853-1858; ALBINA ROMÂNEASCĂ (The Romanian Bee), Iasi, 1839 (the oldest newspaper in the collection); BESSARABSKIE OBLASTNYE VEDOMOSTI (The Bessarabian Regional Gazette), Chisinau, 1858, 1867;... |
Textile Collection
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The textile collection numbers 4,400 objects, classified as follows:- Clothes: Canonicals, 19th – 20th centuries: surplices, albs, stoles, etc.; Fashionable clothing, 20th century; National costumes, 19th – 20th centuries; Theatre costumes, 20th century; Military uniforms, 19th – 20th centuries; Sports uniforms, 20th century; Headwear, 19th – 20th centuries; Clothing accessories and adornments, 16th c., late 19th – first half of 20th century; ... |
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Collection of Household Items |
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The collection contains 6,273 household implements made of wood, metal, clay, ceramics, and textile fibres, used by inhabitants of Moldova from the second half of the 19th to the end of the 20th century.The collection combines items which illustrate the mode of life of the population from this area of Europe, to wit: Tools, Implements and devices for various works, Irons, Lamps and lighting, Bench scales, ... |
Collection of Technical Equipment
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It numbers 702 items, among which there are:Clocks and watches produced in the 18th – 20th centuries in Switzerland, France, Germany, and Russia. Typologically they can be classified as pendulum, mantel, and table clocks, wristwatches, pocket watches, and chimes. Some of the clocks and watches relate to the names of eminent people, such as the publicist Pavalache Crusevan, the academician Nikolay Dimo, the surgeon Sergey Krivosheev and others; ... |
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Philatelic Collection |
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The collection contains 35,807 postage stamps and philatelic material issued in more than 50 countries worldwide. Chronological framework of the collection includes 19th – 20th centuries. Among the objects can be mentioned particularly the following: Series of stamps issued by the State Enterprise “Posta Moldovei” during 1991 – 2006 ... |
Collection of Documents
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The collection includes 23,800 documents on paper of the 19th – 21st centuries: contracts of sale, certificates of property and of marriage, papers on bank loans, property insurance policies, manuscripts, letters and autobiographies, circulars, records of proceedings and shorthand records, diplomas, passports, work-books, military IDs and other papers related to economic, social, political, cultural, and spiritual life of the country.... |
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Collection of Art |
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The collection numbers 6,972 objects classified by the following groups:Wooden icons dated from the 18th – 20th centuries, attributed to the Moldavian painting schools and the Russian painting schools (for the most part); Paintings of the 20th century. The oldest ones are of the period between the two wars, painted by A. Balier, A. Klimashevsky, N. Kolyadich, G. Fiurer, and A. Gumalik; ... |
Development of Collections
The number of exhibits in the Museum collections is permanently growing through donations, acquisitions, field research and transfers. Thus, in 2009 the collections were enriched with 1,538 objects of historical and artistic significance, including 1,042 archaeological objects, 92 numismatic pieces, 29 photographs, 24 documents, 4 objects of weapon and military equipment, 95 ethnographic and household items, 13 objects of technical equipment, 29 objects of decorative art, 5 paintings, 70 philatelic objects, and 135 objects classified to “miscellanea”. Among the most valuable items entered the collections, we can mention: - Roman coins, 2nd century;
- dirhams, Golden Horde, 14th century;
- Gospel, Bucharest, 1750;
- ecclesiastic vestments, Bessarabia, early 19th century;
- measure units, Russia, 1857;
- photographs and household items from the painter Nicolae Coleadici’s family;
- documents and photographs that belonged to the member of the Country Council Ion Pantaru’s family;
- clothing that belonged to the composer Zlata Tcaci.
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