Collections of Moldova's National Art Museum can be watched in 3D format

Chisinau, 21 March /MOLDPRES/ - The collections and exhibitions of the National Art Museum of Moldova can be watched in the 3D format on the institution’s website, given the recommendations as to the emergency situation triggered by the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

Contacted by MOLDPRES, the museum’s director, Tudor Zbarnea, said that the earlier scheduled events had been cancelled. ‘’We will come up with additional information on the days to come,’’ Zbarnea noted.

The National Art Museum of Moldova was founded on 26 November 1939 and is situated in the Chisinau city, in three buildings, important architecture monuments of the end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th century: Hertza House, Kligman House and the Dadiani central headquarters.   

In the last decades, at the Dadiani headquarters, the museum has been preserving a good deal of collections and has carried out the entire exhibition activity. The museum’s heritage encompasses a wide range cultural values, more than 39,000 pieces, systematized in collections: ancient art (sculpture, decorative art, numismatics) from the 4th century BC – 2nd century AD; late medieval and popular art (made up mainly of icons, cult objects, old books, textiles, traditional costumes); national modern and contemporary art (painting, graphic, sculpture, decorative art, the 19th-21st centuries); Russian art (icons, painting, graphic and miniature); western-European universal art: painting, graphic, sculpture and decorative art (Italy, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, the 17th-20th centuries); numismatics and medals (Egypt, Greece, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, England, Ireland,, Sweden, etc., 16th -20th century); oriental art (Japan, China, Tibet, 18th-20th centuries).