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The temporary exhibition "Educational heritage. Textbooks, photographs and school accessories from the collections of the National Museum of History of Moldova" had been opened in museum room no. 4 between September 22, 2022 and July 4, 2023. It was organized on the European Heritage Days and its purpose was to develop and promote the educational heritage from the collections of the National Museum of History of Moldova. The temporary exhibition brought together about 453 museum pieces: school textbooks, books for children, schedules, photographs, collections of alumns' portraits in vignettes, writing utensils, school awards and uniforms, dated the 19th-21st centuries. The objects were exhibited in chronological order and divided into five conventional thematic compartments: the tsarist period (1812-1918), the interwar period (1918-1940), the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1924-1940), the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (1944-1991) and the period that following the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Moldova. The exhibition began with a set of school textbooks published at the end of the 19th century and photos of graduates of some educational institutions in Chisinau such as Gymnasia no. 1 and Gymnasia no. 2 for boys, the Theological Seminary, the Diocesan School and the Gymnasia for Girls. The following compartment included textbooks and photos of famous schools in interwar Bessarabia, named after Queen Maria, Princess Elena, Natalia Dadiani, and others. Next comes a set of textbooks and books published in Romanian in the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1932-1938) and another set of textbooks printed in the so-called Transnistrian Moldavian language, as a result of the cancellation of the Latin script and the return to the official policy of denationalization and Russification promoted by the authorities in the districts to the left of the Dniester. Diverse in content, typographical design or ideological influence, the exhibited textbooks offered the visitor the opportunity to analyze and make certain conclusions regarding the state of education in Romanian Bessarabia and the Moldavian SSR, to compare and identify obvious differences between the two educational systems, Romanian and Soviet. Two other sections of the exhibition refer to education in the Moldavian SSR (1944-1991) and the period that followed the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Moldova. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
