#Exhibit of the Month

One of the great technical achievements that revolutionized the idea of time and space, opening a new era in the history of communication, is telegraphy. It is based on the transmission of electrical signals through a cable over long distances, allowing people to communicate instantly. The telegraph spread very quickly and a network of wires stretched around the world.

In 1837, the American painter and physicist Samuel Morse invented the first electromagnetic device for telegraphy, patented in 1840. To send messages by wire, Morse developed in 1838 a simple code of dots and dashes, which represented the letters of the alphabet, known as "Morse code ".

Both Morse code and the telegraph machine were improved over time, with the telegraph becoming the most widespread system of communication and information transmission for more than a century, until the advent of the Internet. The telegraph system consisted of a series of stations repeaters along the transmission line route. Each station had an operator who received and transmitted messages by telegraph. The Morse machine transmitted about 25 words per minute, which were recorded in code on a paper tape. The operator in charge of transmitting the message would decode it and write it on paper using a special typewriter.

In Bessarabia, the telegraph entered in 1860: on April 8, the Bender telegraph station began its activity, and on April 24, the one in Chisinau, following the construction of the first Odesa-Chisinau-Leova telegraph line. Currently, telegraph services have been discontinued. The only ones who still use coded communication are radio amateurs.

The Morse telegraph machine shown comes from the Osinoostrovsky electrotechnical plant, Soviet Union, and dates back to 1934. The exhibit was restored by Mihail Culașco.

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„Dacia. L’ultima frontiera della romanità”

National Roman Museum in Rome (Thermae of Diocletian)

November 21, 2023 – April 21, 2024

The National Museum of History of Moldova announces the opening of the exhibition "Dacia. L'ultima frontiera della romanità", at the National Roman Museum in Rome (Diocletian Baths). The inauguration event took place on November 20, in Rome, in the presence of numerous high officials from Italy, Romania and the Republic of Moldova.

The exhibition project is designed and coordinated by the National History Museum of Romania, under the auspices of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, carried out in partnership with the Romanian Embassy in Italy, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Romanian Cultural Institute through the Accademia di Romania, benefiting of support from the Romanian Ministry of National Defense.

The exhibition in which about 1000 artifacts from the collections of 47 museums in Romania are presented was also completed with pieces from the heritage of the National Museum of History of Moldova.

The exhibition, which benefits from a very special staging, is the largest and most valuable exhibition project in the last 25 years dedicated to the civilization of the Getae and Dacians, the Roman one as well as the civilizations of the first migrants in the area north of the Danube, in the period between the century VII BC and the end of the century VII BC Versions of the exhibition were also presented in Madrid (in 2021) and in Bucharest (in 2022), with great success with the public.

The exhibition "Dacia. L'ultima frontiera della romanità", can be visited at the National Roman Museum in Rome (Diocletian Baths) between November 21, 2023 and April 21, 2024.