A grand-scale international exhibition – “The Lost World of Old Europe” -, presenting pieces of archaeological heritage in the “Treasure” category, from Romanian museum collections, as well as pieces from museum collections in Bulgaria and Moldova, will be opened, this Tuesday, at the Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeaology (UK).
“The exhibition illustrates a slice of history from our part of the world, providing a concrete frame for the pursuit of high-level diplomatic cultural activity,” the general director of Romania’s National Museum of History (MNIR), Dr. Crisan Museteanu, stated yesterday, for Agerpres.
“I hope this will be only the beginning,” the director of MNIR said, also mentioning that “with the help of the Romanian Cultural Institute in London, we are discussing with representatives of British Museum the organization, in a year or two, of an exhibition dedicated to the Cucuteni culture.”
The result of a successful collaboration between New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and MNIR, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (MCPN), the exhibition presents – for the first time in Great Britain – 175 extremely valuable archaeological pieces, dating from the Neo-Enolithic, from the collections of 19 Romanian museums.
These will be joined by a series of artefacts from the same age, from Moldova’s National Archaeology and History in Chisinau (Moldova) and the Regional History Museum of Varna (Bulgaria). According to organizers, this important Romanian-American cultural project would not have succeeded without support from the Leon Levy Foundation.
Source: Nine O’Clock