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The bronze hoard was discovered on the territory of Mîndrești village, Telenești district, in 1968. It was identified accidentally by a group of students from the village school, and the materials later came to the attention of specialists at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences. According to documentary records, the hoard was composed of ten pieces: four socketed axes (celts), a dagger fragment, a sword fragment, a sickle, a winged axe, an adze-axe, and a chain consisting of four links.
Currently, of the mentioned assemblage, six objects are preserved in the collections of the National Museum of History of Moldova: two socketed axes (celts), the winged axe, the adze-axe, the dagger fragment, and the chain made of four links.- Socketed axe (celt) with one loop. Dimensions: Length - 10.2 cm; Weight - 186 g.
- Socketed axe (celt) with one frontal loop. Dimensions: Length - 8.4 cm; Width: 33-46 mm; Weight - 124 g.
- Winged axe. Dimensions: Length - 14.0 cm; Width - 2.5-3.4 cm; Weight - 285 g.
- Adze-axe. Dimensions: Length - 14.8 cm; Width - 2.3-5.0 cm; Weight - 286 g.
- Dagger fragment. Dimensions: Length - 16.5 cm; Blade length - 9.8 cm; Blade width - 2.8 cm; Weight - 81 g.
- Chain formed of four links. Dimensions: Length - 17.1 cm; Link diameter - 3.8; Weight - 32 g.The bronze hoard of Mîndrești is important due to the association of objects that find analogies in the regional repertoire with pieces that show clear analogies in Central Europe and the Carpathian Basin. The assemblage reflects a zone of contact and interaction where metallic forms of different origins and traditions circulated and were integrated into the repertoire of local communities.
Chronologically, the bronze hoard of Mîndrești is attributed to the Early Hallstatt period - HaA1, being dated to 1200-1100 BC.

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Opening of the exhibition „Memory of deportations”

July 3, 2024

On July 3, 2024, the National Museum of History of Moldova organized the opening of the "Memory of Deportations" exhibition, dedicated to the commemoration of 75 years since the second wave of mass deportations in the Moldavian SSR.

The exhibition approach reveals aspects of the history and memory of the victims of Operation "South" from the night of July 5-6, 1949, bringing to the attention of the visiting public documentary materials, testimonies, personal objects, works of art, thematic video materials. The exposed vestiges elucidate the context in which the organization of the second wave of deportations took place, the transportation and displacement of Bessarabians in special settlements in the eastern regions of the USSR, as well as examples of recent practices honoring the memory of the victims of the totalitarian-communist regime during the SSR period Moldavian.

Today, more than three decades after the signing of the Declaration of Independence (1991), the complex and systematic valorization of the memory of the victims of the totalitarian past in the Republic of Moldova remains a desire of decommunization and democratization. The local communities of memory in the villages and cities of the Republic of Moldova offer examples and models worthy of following in the direction of knowledge of history and memory. However, the symbolic dimension of the commemorative actions comes to constitute for the memory of the victims of the communist regime one of the main forms of (re)knowing and intelligently assuming the traumatic past.

The exhibition presents the recourse to history and memory as an act of symbolic justice brought to all the victims of Operation "South" of July 5-6, 1949 in the Moldavian SSR, thus contributing to the building of a European culture of memory in the society of the Republic of Moldova.

The "Memory of Deportations" exhibition is opened to the large audience between July 3 - August 3, 2024, in the upstairs hall of the National Museum of History of Moldova (Chisinau municipality, str. 31 August 1989, 121A).

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The Bronze Hoard of Mîndrești

Opening of the exhibition „Memory of deportations”

July 3, 2024

#Exhibit of the Month