The National History Museum of Romania, will be consolidated and modernized, the estimated value being over 100 million euros, announced the Minister of Culture Raluca Turcan. The museum will become the second largest consolidated and restored historical monument in Romania, with a total area of 32,000 sqm, after the Palace of Culture in Iasi, where the investment made by the Project Management Unit of the Ministry of Culture was 26.4 million euro.
“The design for the consolidation, restoration and modernization of the National History Museum of Romania begins! I signed the contract regarding the Documentation for the Approval of Intervention Works for the rehabilitation of the National History Museum of Romania (MNIR). The investment is financed through a framework loan agreement between Romania and the Development Bank of the Council of Europe (BDCE), intended for the rehabilitation of the built heritage and the modernization of some cultural buildings in Romania”, Raluca Turcan announced on Facebook today.
She also said that the contract was awarded following an open tender procedure and has a value of 1,208,424 euros (without VAT), “the provider having the obligation to prepare the Approval Documentation for the Intervention Works within a maximum of 180 days from the date of issuance of the design start order.”
The investment from the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest is estimated at over 100 million euros.
The National History Museum of Romania was inaugurated in 1903 by King Carol I.
“MNIR will become the second largest consolidated and restored historical monument in Romania, with a total area of 32,000 square meters, after the Palace of Culture in Iasi, where the investment made by the Project Management Unit of the Ministry of Culture was 26.4 million euros. An emblematic building of the Capital, the building in Calea Victoriei known as the “Palace of Post Offices” was inaugurated in 1903 in the presence of King Carol I, being the largest building in Romania until the construction of the People’s House in 1980. The city’s Central Post Office operated in the building until 1970, when the National History Museum of Romania, inaugurated in 1972, underwent renovation works. Currently, the MNIR is the largest museum in the country and one of the great European museums, bringing together the most important discoveries archaeological and historical documents of Romania.
The objective of the investment is to enhance the value of this building by consolidating, conserving, restoring, rearranging the functions and refurbishing the entire historic building,” the Culture minister pointed out.
By making the investment, it is expected to obtain an expanded museum space compared to the current one, which will allow the exhibition in a high-performance way, at high modern standards, of the currently unexhibited exhibits, a much more coherent, flexible and interesting museum route, explained the minister Cultures.
“Fixing the current shortcomings of the construction, along with the expansion of the permanent exhibition, equipping it with state-of-the-art research and restoration equipment and laboratories and the addition of related public spaces aim to place the National History Museum of Romania on the list of prestigious international museums,” said minister Turcan.