#Exhibit of the Month

The exhibited necklace of beads originates from Funerary Complex No. 6 of Kurgan No. 4, excavated in 1982 by Dr. Habil. Eugen SAVA near the town of Taraclia. The beads were found in the chest area of the deceased, indicating that they had been worn as a necklace and had remained in their original position within the funerary assemblage.
The necklace consists of 11 elements made entirely of Egyptian faience. Eight of the beads are spherical and decorated with vertical incisions forming between 14 and 21 raised ribs. Their diameters range from 13 to 20 mm. Two additional elements are scarab representations measuring 23.5 × 19.5 mm, while the final component is a flattened cylindrical pendant bead featuring a central vertical groove and measuring 22 × 9 mm. The objects range in color from light blue to dark blue and violet hues, reflecting the natural deterioration and glaze variations characteristic of Egyptian faience.
Egyptian faience is an artificial quartz-based material coated with an alkaline glaze, typically blue or blue-green in color. It was widely used in Ancient Egypt and later spread throughout the Mediterranean and Pontic regions through trade networks. During the first centuries AD, such objects served as important indicators of cultural and economic contacts between the Mediterranean world and the communities of the North Pontic region.
Owing to its typological, technological, and symbolic characteristics, the Taraclia necklace is an exceptionally valuable artifact for the study of intercultural relations, the circulation of prestige goods, and the funerary practices of the Sarmatian communities during the first centuries AD (1st-2nd centuries AD).

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The culture and science of Moldova in the 20th century: Personalities

(Permanent Exhibition “History and Civilization”)

This department of the exhibition reflects some aspects of the cultural and scientific life of post-war Moldova through the prism of the activities of outstanding people in various fields: literature, theater, music, cinema, science and education.

Despite the political regime and red terror established in the MSSR after 1944, the Moldavian society followed the laws of dialectics and continued to develop. As a result, the Soviet era was marked not only by horrors, exceptional measures or terror, but also by outstanding achievements in the fields o science, culture, economics, medicine, and so on. The enlightened minds of the nation resisted the policy of assimilation and denationalization; they built, raised children, created valuable works, defended and promoted the national cultural and historical heritage. The creations of these figures represent a genuine cultural and scientific heritage, the value of which will grow over the years.

The relics presented in the exhibition department bring to the forefront the life and work of famous personalities of culture and national science, such as film directors Emil Loteanu and Valeriu Gagiu, actors Eugeniu Ureche and Domnica Darienco, Mihai Volontir and Grigore Grigoriu, artists Mihail Grecu, diva of the national opera Maria Bieşu, actors and such as theatre directors Ion Ungureanu and Sandri Ion Şcurea, Valeriu Cupcea and Veniamin Apostol, academicians Nicolae Corlăteanu and Ilie Untilă, Sergiu Rădăuţanu and Anton Ablov, doctors Nicolae Testemiţanu and Natalia Gheorghiu, writers Andrei Lupan and Aureliu Busuioc, Grigore Vieru and Ion Vatamanu, Dumitru Matcovschi and Leonida Lari, and others.