Museum Institutions in the City of Bălți: Historical Reconstructions

Abstract

The study presents pages from the history of the Museum of History and Ethnography from Bălți municipality and the winding path in identifying the premises for the plenary institutional activity. Museum of History and Ethnography in Bălți is a key institution in the cultural life of the municipality, for more than six decades. The authors elucidate the context in which museum started its activity, as well as the challenges of conceptualization in the collection and valorization of artifacts from the museum’s patrimony. At the beginning (1961), the museum had its headquarters in the Episcopal Cathedral „Sfinţii Impăraţi Constantin şi Elena” an architectural jewel in neo-Romanian style, built in the interwar period by the efforts of the bishop Visarion Puiu.

Keywords

• museum of history and ethnography
• bălți
• museographic heritage