Moldovan architect commemorated at museum in Chisinau

Chisinau, 07 March /MOLDPRES/ – The late architect Eugen Bazgu, one of the founders of the Chisinau Village Museum, his first director, architect and researcher of the cultural heritage of Moldova, was commemorated today at the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History through a series of cultural actions at three years from its passage into eternity.

On the same day, within the institutions and there took place scientific conference: The values ​​of traditional architecture in Moldova. In memoriam Eugen Bazgu. Over 20 Moldovan scholars have presented communications from the area of ​​concern of the late researcher: folk architecture, historical monuments, history and architecture of the Bessarabian worship places, as well as aspects of his life and activity.

Interviewed by agency, the director of the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History (MNEIN), Petru Vicol, mentioned that Eugen Bazgu was an architect, museum and ethnologist, a person with profound knowledge in various fields, and the aim of the event was to promote his name and his ideas who supported them, especially the Village Museum.

In the context, PhD in Varvara Buzila, a coordinating scientific researcher in the institution, the late architect's wife, said that every restoration work he did was so much loved.

During the event, there were launched the collections of the architect's studies: Arhitectura populara – memorie identitara (Folk architecture – identity memory), launched in 2018 with the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research (MECC). The communications presented at the above – mentioned conference will be published later in a thematic collection or in the Museum's Scientific Bulletin.

Eugen Bazgu was born on 29 October 1955 in Causeni. He graduated from the Technical University of Moldova, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (1982). From 1978 he worked at the Academy of Sciences, Department of identification and documentation of monuments of history and culture. In 1982 – 1984 he worked as an ethnographer at the Orheiul Vechi Museum Complex. From 1984 he was employed at the MNEIN, first as a scientific researcher, then as chief architect, coordinating director of the Chisinau Village Museum. In 2001 – 2006 she is an official at the Ministry of Culture in the field of real estate. In 2010, he was consultant in cultural heritage and visual arts Directorate of the Ministry of Culture and Secretary of the National Council of Historical Monuments. Emeritus of Moldova (2010). He signed over 100 scientific papers in the field of ethnology, folk architecture, cave ecclesiastical architecture in the Dniester valley. He died on 07 March 2016.