#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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“The colors of the "thaw". The Bessarabian village in the painting of the 1960s”

The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant

April 18 - May 19, 2024

The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant and the Arbor Culture and Arts Association invite you to the exhibition Colors of the "thaw". The Bessarabian village in the painting of the 1960s, which presents the creations of 14 masters from the left of the Prut River, sonorous names that stood out for their contribution to renewing the plastic language of the moment.

The exhibition is part of the "Grecu Rusu Ciobanu and others" cultural project. Redefining aesthetics in Bessarabia in the 1960s", organized by the Arbor Association, in partnership with the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in Romania, the Union of Plastic Artists from the Republic of Moldova, the National Museum of History of Moldova, the National Library of the Republic of Moldova and ARCUB - Cultural Center of the Municipality of Bucharest.

The exhibition Colors of the "thaw". The Bessarabian village in the painting of the 1960s presents mostly unknown creations, from the artists' family collections, from private collections, supplemented with works from the heritage of the Union of Plastic Artists of the Republic of Moldova and from the National Museum of History of Moldova. Taking into account the specifics of the host museum, the exhibition presents plastic creations with a rural theme, through which the Bessarabian masters demonstrate a deep understanding of the spirit of folk art.

The exhibition speech is completed by the projection of a video material, produced by the Arbor Association, which clarifies the historical and cultural context in which Bessarabian artists lived and worked, with explanations and testimonies brought by art historians, Ludmila Toma, Constantin I. Ciobanu and Tudor Stavilă. In addition, the public will also have at their disposal a catalog of the exhibition, with complementary studies, signed by the historians invited to the project.

In addition to the paintings, personal objects of the artists are exhibited, a documentary film about the artist Glebus Sanciuc, promoter of masks inspired by popular tradition ("Glebus", 1983, director: V. Jereghi), as well as a rich collection of art publications, from the fund of the National Library of the Republic of Moldova and private collections.

The exhibition can be visited in the New Gallery Hall of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, until May 19, 2024, from Wednesday to Sunday, between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Monday and Tuesday is closed.