Exhibition of 1 March trinkets inaugurated at Chisinau-based museum

Chisinau, 26 February /MOLDPRES/ - The National Ethnography and Natural History Museum (MNEIN), jointly with the National Centre for Preservation and Promotion of Intangible Cultural Heritage today inaugurated an exhibition titled, The Martisor – tradition and diversity in the creation of craftsmen.

Contacted by MOLDPRES, MNEIN director Petru Vicol said that the National Ethnography and Natural History Museum had about 4,000 Martisors in its collection. ‘’This is the most recent collection set up out of those which belong to the museum. The Martisors made in the 1970s-1980s by masters of the Association of Popular Artistic Trades Artizana stayed at the collection’s basis. The next substantial entrance of Martisors in the heritage took place in March 2003 and was due to a contest organized by the Moldova 1 Public television, Good Morning programme. In 2004, the first exhibition of Martisors of the institution’s collection was staged and since then, the National Ethnography and Natural History Museum each year organized master-classes and exhibitions dedicated to this nice symbol of spring,’’ the institution’s director said.     

According to Petru Vicol, the goal of the 2021 year exhibition is to highlight the collection of Martisors and the artistic work of craftsmen, who have coopered with MNEIN during decades.  

The exhibition will be opened till 18 April.