Savantul Ovidiu Bădina: contribuții muzeografice
Scientist Ovidiu Bădina: museographic contributions

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the scientist Ovidiu Bădina, who contributed to various fields of science, including museology. The author focused on the museum studies of O. Bădina, noting that he contributed to the development of Romanian museology, initiated and led sociological research in the field of museums, studied the museum as a social phenomenon, coordinated scientific meetings in Chișinău and Bucharest discussing to the place and role of museums in modern society. He published one of his most important studies in 1966 in the “Revista muzeeler” journal (Bucharest). We are talking about the article “Dimitrie Gusti and the Romanian Village Museum”. O. Bădina researched the creation stages of the Village Museum, presented the concept of D. Gusti, who perceived this museum as sociological, not ethnographic. O. Bădina believed that the Romanian Village Museum is unique in its kind, it allows one to see the qualitative changes that the Romanian village has undergone. According to the scientist, this museum is a valuable monument that carries deep meanings; it is and will be one of the most important museums. In 1991-1999 O. Bădina worked in Chișinău, where he founded an institute of applied social research, the National Institute of Sociology of the Republic of Moldova. As director of this institution, he organized and managed numerous sociological studies in various fields. Among these studies, the author singles out the questioning of museum visitors developed in November-December 1998 and carried out in March-June 1999 by a group of museum specialists from Chișinău under the guidance of Professor Ovidiu Bădina. It was a topical study needed to define a strategy for the continuous development of museum institutions. The study of the museum audience was carried out for the first time after 110 years of the existence of the Bessarabian museums and the relationship between the museum and community. In Chișinău, he was also involved in the development of museum holdings, financially providing for the purchase and transmission of old books of the first half of the 19th century to museum collections. Ovidiu Bădina will remain in the history of the museum studies of the Republic of Moldova as one of the initiators of social-psychological studies of visitors, investigations of the relationship between the museum and community, and the publication of the results of these studies became confirmation of his professional interest in the museums of our country.

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