The Republic of Moldova must change the legal framework and find businessmen interested to invest in what represents heritage. The statement belongs to Liliana Nicolaescu-Onofrei, Minister of education, culture and research, who attended the ceremony of handing out participation certificates to students from Moldovan vocational schools who learned historical buildings restoration techniques from Italian experts, IPN reports.
"The only things that cannot be done by robots are those related to heritage, art, culture," said the minister. Liliana Nicolaescu-Onofrei specified that the ministry led by her would try to ameliorate the situation in the field of restoration.
The Italian ambassador to Chisinau, Valeria Biagiotti, stated that her country prides itself on a rich and vast cultural heritage. “The students who have completed the restoration courses today can become guarantors of the beauty of Moldova. They can practice a trade that contributes to enhancing the beauty of Moldova”, said Valeria Biagiotti.
Luisa De Marco, organizer of the restoration workshop, said that the young people already possessed the nuts and bolts of what it means to restore old things.
One of the graduates of the restoration courses is Gheorghe Gherman, a student of Vocational School number 4. “For me it was a new experience. The knowledge I have accumulated I hope to apply in the future so as to participate in the restoration of many objects," said Gheorghe Gherman.
The young people who attended the restoration courses received a job offer from the director of the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, Petru Vicol. "We have the restoration department at the museum. Come and get a job. We do not have specialists at the museum, and you have had such an excellent training. Restoration is a promising speciality”, said Petru Vicol.
For five days, young people attended both theoretical and practical courses. Assisted by Italian experts and their teachers from the vocational schools, the students conducted small interventions at the Zemstvei Museum, where the training took place. They carried out works of cleaning, consolidation and integration of the interior details, as well as of the exterior fabric and ornaments of the nearly 170-year-old building.
The workshop was held between August 26 -30 and was organized by the European Union Twinning Project, "Support to promote cultural heritage in the Republic of Moldova, through its preservation and protection".
