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Touring exhibitions of the Sighet Memorial in 2020

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  1. The exhibition The Danube-Black Sea Canal: a Programmed Cemetery hosted by Carol I Museum of Brăila

 

The exhibition The Danube-Black Sea Canal: a Programmed Cemetery, curated by the International Centre for Studies on Communism of the Sighet Memorial was open for public viewing in January through March at the Carol I Museum of Brăila.

 

  1. The exhibition Black Pentecost: Deportation to the Bărăgan Plain mounted in 2020 in Cahul and Brăila

 

The exhibition Black Pentecost: Deportation to the Bărăgan Plain was hosted in February by the County Museum of Cahul in the Republic of Moldova. The exhibition opened on 30 January with a presentation delivered by historian Virgiliu Bîrlădeanu.

The exhibition’s tour across several cities in Moldova was facilitated through the collaboration with the ProMemoria Institute in Chișinău.

In May, the exhibition returned to Brăila, Romania and was hosted by the Carol I Museum of Brăila until the end of 2020.

 

  1. The exhibition The Peasants and Communism. A Requiem for the Romanian Peasant toured through the Republic of Moldova

 

In 2020, the exhibition The Peasants and Communism. A Requiem for the Romanian Peasant embarked on an extensive tour through several cities in the Republic of Moldova.

  • In February, the exhibition opened at the University of Cahul.
  • In May and June, it was displayed at the National Museum of the History of Moldova in Chișinău.
  • From 15 July to 5 August, the exhibition was hosted by the Museum of History and Ethnography in Nisporeni.
  • From 20 August to 13 September, the exhibition was showcased at the History Museum in Călărași.
  • From 21 September to 4 October, it was hosted by the Orheiul Vechi Museum Complex.
  • The final stop of the tour was at the Ethnography Museum in Sîngerei at the end of October.

 

The touring of the exhibition in the Republic of Moldova was part of the project titled ‘Researching totalitarian regimes and building European remembrance culture to overcome historical trauma: promoting best practices between the Republic of Lithuania and the Republic of Moldova’, a project implemented by the Institute of History in cooperation with the National Museum of the History of Moldova and the Excellence Centre of the ProMemoria Institute of the State University of Moldova, with support from the Development Cooperation and Democracy Promotion Programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

 

  1. The exhibition Remembrance as a Form of Justice in Spanish

 

In early 2020, in response to an invitation from the Romanian Cultural Institute in Madrid, we put together the Romanian-Spanish version of the exhibition Remembrance as a Form of Justice. Our goal was to take the exhibition on a tour across various cities in Spain. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we had to put this plan on hold. However, in December, the Romanian Cultural Institute in Madrid showcased the exhibition online, sharing it on its Facebook page and on the Facebook page of the Romanian Embassy in Madrid.