Moldovan PM attends inauguration of Dadiani headquarters of National Art Museum

Chisinau, 4 November /MOLDPRES/- Prime Minister Pavel Filip today participated in a ceremony of reopening the Dadiani headquarters of the National Art Museum of Moldova, which was under the arrangement and rehabilitation process. Attending the event were Culture Minister Monica Babuc, Romanian Ambassador to Chisinau Daniel Ionita, director-general of the Art Museum of Moldova Tudor Zbarnea, as well as numerous personalities of the cultural, academic and political world.

According to the government’s communication and media relations department, in his speech Filip said that through the National Art Museum we have to modernize entire Moldova. “Modernization means firstly restoration of monuments of history, of those buildings that have a special history, and it is very important to put them back in the cultural circuit,” he said.

Filip admired the permanent exhibition of the National Art, inaugurated on the occasion of reopening of the museum’s headquarters, which included works of religious art collection, icons and religious objects of the 16th -19th centuries, as well as the collection of modern and contemporary art, painting, graphics, sculpture and decorative art.

Completion of restoration works of Dadiani headquarters of the National Art Museum of Moldova was possible due to a grant amounting to 1 million euros provided by the Romanian government under a memorandum signed between the Romanian Foreign Ministry and Culture Ministry of Moldova.

Presently, the Organ Hall of Chisinau is restored and the Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu theatre’s headquarters from Cahul city is built with the support of the Romanian government.

(Editor L. Alcază)