On the National Culture Day marked on January 15, the Romanian Literature Museum “Mihail Kogalniceanu” became national museum. The chairman of the Writers Union Arcadie Suceveanu said that under a Government decision, the museum will be transferred from the Writers Union to the Ministry of Culture, with state financing, Info-Prim Neo reports. “The museum lately faced serious problems that gravely affected the museum funds. The museum’s collections that now include over 100,000 items of inestimable literary and cultural value must be maintained and renovated by a group of professionals. In virtue of our realities, the museum was deprived of state subsidy in 2004. After 1990, the museum was unable to maintain the permanent collections that we had here. It focused on all the stages of our literature, since 1920 until present,” said Arcadie Suceveanu. He also said that the Writers Union allocated 572 square meters to the museum gratis, by contract, and this formula at the current stage is the most suitable. “We hope that by subsidization from the state, we will manage to renovate the museum patrimony, the offices and basement where the museum’s works are now kept,” stated Arcadie Suceveanu. Minister of Culture Boris Focsa handed over to the museum’s director Valeriu Nazar a certificate of institutionalization whereby the Museum ”Mihail Kogalniceanu” was transferred to the Ministry of Culture. In Moldova there are now four national museums: the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, the National Museum of Archeology and History of Moldova, the National Museum of Plastic Arts, and the Romanian Literature Museum “Mihail Kogalniceanu”.