Important announcement
A Loss for All Humanity
"The Phenomenon of Resistance"
"Education in Times of Occupation"
"The Archaeological Landscape of Old Orhei"
"UNHEARD VOICES"
„Petru Lucinschi: Portrait Over Time”
„Mihai Eminescu in Medallic Art, Philately, and Postcard Collecting from the NMHM Collection...”
"Metallurgy – from Magic to Industry"
“Treasures of the Past (artifacts of gold and silver, 5th millennium BC - 18th century AD...”
„Soviet Moldova: Between Myths and the Gulag”
Diorama of the „Iasi-Chisinau Operation”
“HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION”

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The work In Memoriam. In Memory of the Heroes Who Fell at the Nistru (1992) was developed within the Center for Culture and Military History and published under the auspices of the Government of the Republic of Moldova, the Bureau for Reintegration, and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Moldova. Authors: Gheorghe Bălan, Vitalie Ciobanu, Gheorghe Cojocaru.

This work provides a retrospective of the events that led to the outbreak of the war on the Nistru, accompanied by photographs of the heroes who lost their lives in the battles to defend the independence and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova.

On March 2, 1992, the political conflict in the Nistru region escalated into a true fratricidal war. Under the fabricated pretext of "defending Russia's southern borders," political adventurers from the former Soviet metropolis encouraged Transnistrian separatism by arming secessionist paramilitary groups. At the same time, thousands of mercenary Cossacks and prisoners released early from jails, along with tanks and missiles, were sent against Independent Moldova, in a desperate attempt to revive the fallen empire.

Russia's undeclared war against the Republic of Moldova left behind hundreds of dead and wounded, shattered families, and villages in ruins. More than 50,000 peaceful residents from the conflict zone were forced to flee their homes, seeking refuge from the horrors of war.

For the sake of freedom and the future, Moldova's defenders faced death, enduring the hardships and humiliations of war.

During the Nistru war, 198 soldiers of the National Army and 89 personnel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs lost their lives, while 40 combatants went missing without a trace, and nearly 300 were left disabled.

Exhibitions

Collections

Archaeological Collection
	The collection consists of 47863 objects (the core fund), which came from archaeological excavations, random finds, acquisitions, donations, and transfers and date back to the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron Ages, Roman Era, pre-feudal period, and the Middle Ages...

Collection of Historical Exhibits
It contains the objects of historical and memorial significance, dated from the 19th - 20th centuries, which are destined to recompose the ambience of bygone centuries, to reconstruct in exhibitions the atmosphere in which Moldavian cultural, historical, and political figures of the past lived and worked....

Collection of Arms and Armour
	The Museum owns authentic weapons of the 16th – 20th centuries, of western, eastern, and Russian (for the most part) origin. The collection consists of all the types of cold steel and fire-arms: offensive, defensive, missile, and hunting weapons....

Numismatic Collection
The collection consists of: Coins of diverse times and countries of issue. There are ancient coins of Greek, Getae-Dacian, and Roman origin, medieval coins of local and foreign issues (the Ottoman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the United Provinces, Hungary, Poland, etc.); series of modern coins...

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Red Room

Bronze Room

Blue Room

The National Museum of History of Moldova takes place among the most significant museum institutions of the Republic of Moldova, in terms of both its collection and scientific reputation. The permanent exhibition of the museum is conceived and realized by a group of specialists who have chosen the way of presentation based on strict scientific subjects in accordance with chronology and supported by expressive force of exhibits, these original evidences representing the historical and archaeological heritage preserved in the museum. The exhibition space covers an area of 1,700 sq. m. and is used optimally, observing all the conservation and safety requirements.

The exhibition illustrates the history of Moldova from the oldest times to the present, in its ensemble and succession, by means of authentic and revealing exhibits, which impartially show economic, cultural, political, and social development of the human society in this geographic area in different historical times. By means of historical documentary and artistic objects the exhibition presents the originality and peculiarities of formation of the Moldavian people. Museum visitors become introduced in the atmosphere of different times by means of some explanatory exhibits and specific museum reconstructions of different social, economic, and cultural environments characteristic of different strata and stages of the development of society.

Important announcement

A Loss for All Humanity

"The Phenomenon of Resistance"

"Education in Times of Occupation"

"The Archaeological Landscape of Old Orhei"

"UNHEARD VOICES"

„Petru Lucinschi: Portrait Over Time”

„Mihai Eminescu in Medallic Art, Philately, and Postcard Collecting from the NMHM Collection”

"Metallurgy – from Magic to Industry"

“Treasures of the Past (artifacts of gold and silver, 5th millennium BC - 18th century AD)”

„Soviet Moldova: Between Myths and the Gulag”

Diorama of the „Iasi-Chisinau Operation”

“HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION”

#Exhibit of the Month

Archaeological Collection

Collection of Historical Exhibits

Collection of Arms and Armour

Numismatic Collection

See more

#Exhibit of the Month