#Exhibit of the Month

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.

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Exhibitions

''Early Cattle-breeders’ Communities in the Prut-Dniester Area (Aeneolithic – Iron Age)''

(October 14, 2010 – October 14, 2011)

The exhibition presents to the public for the first time the collection of archaeological items discovered in burial mounds belonged to the early cattle-breeders’ communities which came to this area from the east in the 2nd half of the 5th millennium B.C. These communities lived in the Prut-Dniester area between 4,300 and 800 B.C., bringing with them new way of life, new social structures, new materials (such as bronze and glass).

These more than 380 exhibits (vessels, tools, weapons, and adornments made of clay, bone, stone, flint, glass, shells, and bronze) reflect the traditional occupations in the cattle-breeders’ communities. The most of the presented exhibits are pottery which let trace the main changes occurred as a result of interaction between the early cattle-breeders’ communities and local sedentary agricultural communities.

The most significant exhibits are: a hoe of horn, bronze axes and daggers, bronze sickles found near the Dancu village, stone moulds for bronze weapons.