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| The Long Night of Museums in Romania 16/05/2011 |
| (2011-05-16) |
| Last updated: 2011-05-17 13:29 EET |
A successful project first initiated by the French Ministry for Culture and Communication, the Long Night of Museums is now in its 7th year. In Romania, the event again enjoyed an impressive number of visitors.
Seventy museums stayed open all night long this week-end to present their collections and special exhibits free of charge. In Bucharest, the National History Museum, for example, had two different exhibitions on offer. The first, which is staged together with the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, is entitled “The 1970s and 80s. Our Youth” and looks at the life of children and young people under communism.
The second exhibition is dedicated to the crown belonging to the Romanian monarchy, an item of great artistic and historical value. The crown reminds visitors of 1881, when the Kingdom of Romania was proclaimed, and its first king, Carol I. Unusually, the crown is not made of gold or set with precious stones. On the contrary, it uses steel, more precisely the steel from one of the Turkish canons captured by the Romanian army in Plevna, in Bulgaria, during the 1877 war for independence from the Ottoman Empire.
The decision to have a crown made of steel instead of gold has a political and philosophical meaning and reflects the view of Carol I on modern monarchy. The same crown was used for the coronation of his successor, King Ferdinand, in 1922, after WWI, when Romania’s state unity was achieved. Across the road from the Royal Palace in Bucharest, in front of which sits an equestrian statue of King Carol I, the Central University Library also joined the 3,000 European cultural institutions that opened their doors to visitors on the Long Night of Museums.
The building housing the Library reminds us of the greatest figures of Romanian literature, poet Mihai Eminescu and playwright Ion Luca Caragiale. It currently hosts an exhibition of posters by the famous Surrealist painter and poet of Romanian origin, Victor Brauner. During the Long Night of Museums, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest provided its visitors with a 3D reconstruction of the Column and Forum of the Roman emperor Trajan, as well as a video projection of the Dacian fortress of Sarmisegetuza, a vestige which speaks volumes of the Dacian-Roman origins of the Romanian people.
As of this year, the Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest joined the events dedicated to the Long Night of Museums. Here, important figures of Romanian public, cultural and scientific life have been laid to rest during the last 150 years. The Bellu Cemetery attracted thousands of visitors, who made pilgrimage to the site in the period between Christ’s Resurrection at Easter and his Ascension 40 days later.
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