Planning, operation and revitalization concept of indoor and court yard of Bistrița-Năsăud County Museum - Bistrița–Năsăud County Council

Planning, operation and revitalization concept of indoor and court yard of Bistrița-Năsăud County Museum - Bistrița–Năsăud County Council
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Project Promoter: Bistrița–Năsăud County Council
Project duration: 23 months, but no later than 31.10.2016
Grant amount: RON 6,171,949, i.e. EUR 1,397,158.80

The Bistrița-Năsăud Museum Complex, an illustrative cultural patrimony for our county, is located within the former Habsburg barracks built in the late 19th century on Grigore Bălan Street, at no. 19, Bistrița chief town. It was inaugurated in 1987 and the Natural History Department, which is the subject-matter of the project, was created in 1955.

By a series of endowment and modernisation measures, the project aims at better valorising the existing cultural patrimony, at consolidating the quality of the museum, which is an important benchmark for cultural and historical tourism, at regenerating the image of the museum, by using innovative solutions taken from the international experience and integrated and adapted to the specificity of the County Museum, thus becoming a magnet for the local population and for tourists.

General goal:

The configuration of a concept for arranging, operating and revitalising interior premises and the yard of the Bistrița-Năsăud County Museum, with an aim to regenerate the image of the museum, to enhance its attractiveness and to use innovative solutions taken from the international experience, integrated and adapted to the specificity of the County Museum.

Specific goals:

  1. The configuration of a concept of regenerating the operation, the image and the role of the museum at the level of the chief town and of the county in the regional network;
  2. The regeneration of the Natural Science Department – a new concept of displaying and contact of the audience with the exhibits and the information;
  3. The opening of new premises at the museum semi-basement, in order to provide an innovative framework for the audience’s contact with the relevant information;
  4. The remedy of damaged sections and inoperable aspects;
  5. The reconstitution of the interior yard as interaction and awareness premises;
  6. Project visibility provision;
  7. The provision of the support services needed for implementing the project activities.

IMPACT

Site visit at Bistrița-Năsăud County Museum, June 26th 2017

The restoration works included a series of interventions on the building’s aesthetics (the interior facades), the interrelating area (courtyard) and the exhibition halls that host priceless collections of Bistrița-Năsăud County Museum. The new concept aimed at increasing the museum’s attractiveness through innovative solutions.

The activities of the project implemented by Bistrița-Năsăud County Council and financed through EEA Grants were completed on April 30th 2017.

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One museum properly developed, revitalized and equipped functioning according to the standards required by the rules of the European Union;

425 heritage goods and documents digitized, relevant for 3 themes: life and work of poet George Coșbuc (200 documents), life and work of writer Liviu Rebreanu (50 documents) and the World War I (75 documents and 100 goods).

The visibility of the project was insured through:

  • the website;
  • 200 brochures with papers presented during the urban history session;
  • 300 catalogs of the Armenian carpets and handcrafts exhibition;
  • 300 catalogs of the Mihai Mănescu exhibition;
  • 500 Museum Guides;
  • one film presenting the museum, available here;
  • the event 65 years of museum history in Bistrița;
  • closing conference.
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