PURCHASES AND DONATIONS

We especially note the donations of the collectors Marian and Luminiţa Iacob (185 pieces – wooden icons and pristornice from the 19th and 20th centuries from the Wallachia area), the valuable collection of circular pristornice of Constantin Movileanu-Bobulescu (8 pieces from the 19th century from Moldova), which belonged to the donor’s great-grandfather, a well-known prescurar from Iaşi (Costache Movileanu), all inscribed in Cyrillic, as well as the several dozen icons on wood and glass donated to the museum in the year of the centenary by Manola Cristina Ciobanu, the descendant of the collector Corneliu Anton Ciobanu.

The heritage is completed by a collection of over 7,000 painted eggs donated by the family of doctors Maria and Nicolae Zahacinschi.

The acquisition of the six wooden churches from Arad and Hunedoara counties, bearers of an entire Romanian religious and civic history (four preserved "in situ", and two, within the museum), considerably and significantly develops not only the institution's heritage as such, but, above all, its possibilities to enrich the knowledge and spiritual life of visitors, offering them the opportunity to directly appreciate the ingenuity and craftsmanship of peasant craftsmen in building religious buildings and imagining and painting relevant scenes from the great Christological Cycle (The Last Supper, Judgment, the Passion of the Savior, the Road to Golgotha, Carrying the Cross, the Crucifixion), moments from Genesis, the Face of Mary with the Child, archangels, angels, prophets, etc. Unique and of great value is the Foreign Countries collection, made up of traditional, household and decorative objects, numbering over 4,000, originating from international exchanges and collaborations, which provides a solid basis for comparative research for a better understanding of the participation of different peoples in the establishment of universal cultural heritage.