The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (MNTR) ranked second at the 2025 Museum Souvenir Award international competition, organized by the Balkan Museum Network.
According to a release of the museum sent to AGERPRES on Tuesday, the distinction was granted for the interactive souvenir called "Fragments of the World" (2025), created by the Image Archive team of the MNTR.
"This souvenir turns a familiar item - the wall calendar - into a year-long journey through the museum's collections. (...) By merging analogue tradition with digital interaction, it encourages daily engagement with heritage while keeping the tactile pleasure of printed calendars alive. (...) The jury appreciated its innovative twist on a traditional format, making the museum part of everyday life for an entire year," according to the jury's reasoning, as quoted in the release.
This international recognition confirms the MNTR's mission to bring the cultural heritage and history of the Romanian peasant closer to the public, the quoted source showed.
Museum manager Virgil Nitulescu argued that the award is very important for all those who worked in creating the calendar and for the museum it is a distinction "received long after other distinctions."
"This award, which we received from an association of which we are a member, namely the Balkan Museum Network, matters a great deal for the morale of our museum team, at a time when we are concerned about the cultural projects we have planned and whether we will still have the necessary money to carry them through. This project was completed, and I'm referring here to the calendar for which we received second place, it was created at the initiative of my colleagues from the documentation department, carried out with our own resources, with great enthusiasm and out of the desire to constantly meet the public with interesting and original ideas that keep up with the expectations of a younger audience, because one of the museum's most important goals is to reach new segments of young visitors and bring them closer to the museum," Virgil Nitulescu told AGERPRES.
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