Five museums in Chisinau will use new technologies to present the cultural heritage. Museographers, together with creative teams consisting of digital artists, photographs, writers, specialists in virtual reality, will create joint projects using immersive technologies, IPN reports.
The pilot project “Museums of the Future” covers the National Museum of History of Moldova, the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, the National Museum of Literature “Mihail Kogălniceanu”, the Museum of the History of Chisinau and the National Museum of Arts of Moldova.
Petru Vicol, director general of the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, said that for their museum this project represents an interesting challenge. Even if the museum uses concrete and palpable things, it is ready to implement new projects and has enormous potential to involve the creative industries. The museum has a varied collection that can be used in such projects.
Tudor Zbârnea, director general of the National Museum of Arts, noted that their museum plays the traditional role of collecting, examining and presenting and has many interesting projects intended for children. The grownups come to the museum seldom if they hadn’t visited museums in childhood. He often invited visual artists, but he was every time told that art costs and the works of visual artists can be exhibited for money only. The museum is yet open to offers, ideas and proposals so as to combine forces and implement the project.
Minister of Culture Sergiu Prodan stated that the project enables artists, the people of art to joint forces and mount modern exhibitions that use new technologies. Museums can bring an important value to the country’s economy and such an initiative means a start for creating new heritage that in time will be left to the next generations. “The requirements concerning the notion of contemporary heritage change in the world and we must be aware of these values and criteria,” said the minister.
The “Museum of the Future” is a project implemented under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture in partnership with the “Technologies of the Future” Project funded by USAID and Sweden, and the Association of Creative Industry Companies COR.
