Museums and Village Collections of Romania. A Pleading for Initiative
Museums and Village Collections of Romania. A Pleading for Initiative

Summary/Abstract: A walk around Romanian villages enables you to find collections of ethnographic objects, small museum-houses or even real private museums, open or accessible only under certain circumstances to the local public or to tourists. Designed by enthusiastic persons who lack specialised knowledge, they are sheltered in their own households or in spaces acquired by personal funds. Initiatives of this kind do not always enjoy the organised support of the local authorities or the help of specialised institutions able to offer them advice on the preservation, protection, registration and capitalisation of culturally important heritage goods. They do not benefit from institutional protection and no cultural policy seems to take them into consideration. In 2008, the Romanian Peasant Museum made a cultural experiment which unfolded a pilot-project that aimed to find such collections in the Romanian villages, to visit them and to trz to provide them its own support. The museum tried to offer consultancy, national visibility and future opportunities to collection owners.

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