Muzeul Memoriei Neamului (
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; ''Museum of National Memory'') is a
private museum
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Overview
Unlike a public or governmental museum, a scientific monitoring and systematic documentation is n ...
in
Chișinău,
Moldova
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, dedicated to the victims of the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, and commemorating anti-communism, anti-communist resistance in the region.
Overview
Founded by the former political prisoner and dissident Vadim Pirogan, the museum is located on ''str. Costache Negruzzi no 4'' and is supported by the Association of the Victims of the Communist Regime and of the War Veterans of the Romanian Army, a Moldovan Non-governmental organization, NGO.
In the 1990s, Mihai Ursache, a member in the 1940s of the resistance organization "Arcașii lui Ștefan" in occupied Bessarabia, founded a small museum in two rooms at 52 Kogălniceanu Street. The association was disbanded and its exhibits stored in the basement of the National History Museum. After 3–4 years, Vadim Pirogan, a former political prisoner condemned by the Soviets in 1941 to five years of forced labor at camps in the Irkutsk region, decided to rebuild the museum together with Nicholas Caireac in a 70 m
2 room that they rented.
On June 30, 2010, the First Filat Cabinet, First Vlad Filat Cabinet, decided to create a separate ''Museum of Victims of Communism'';
About 40,000 persons were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan on July 6, 1949, IPN Press Agency, 6.7.2010
/ref> however, such a museum has not been inaugurated.
Gallery
Image:Mihail Ursachi and Vladimir Patrascu.jpg, Mihail Ursachi and Vladimir Pătraşcu
See also
*Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova
References
External links
Muzeul Memoriei Neamului
website at ''memoria.ro''
Museums in Moldova
Private collections in Europe
Chișinău, Muzeul Memoriei Neamului
Military and war museums
Museums established in 2002
History museums in Moldova
2002 establishments in Moldova, Muzeul Memoriei Neamului
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