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Oltenia
Museum
is
one
of
the
richest
and
most
beautiful
museums
in
Romania,
an
important
centre
of
scientific
and
cultural
life.
It
is
also
the
most
representative
cultural
institution
in
Wallachia.
The
Oltenia
Museum
in
Craiova
is
one
of
the
richest
and
most
beautiful
museums
in
Romania,
an
important
centre
of
scientific
and
cultural
life.
It
is
the
most
representative
cultural
institution
in
Wallachia,
carrying
out
its
activity
in
three
different
sectors:
Archaeology
and
History,
Ethnography
and
Natural
Sciences.
On
April
1st
1915,
a
Regional
Museum
of
Antiquities
and
Ethnography
was
founded
in
the
building
of
the
Administrative
Palace
(now
housing
the
County
Hall).
The
Archaeology
Section
enclosed
epigraphic
monuments
from
the
Dacian-Roman
period,
Dacian-Roman,
Romanian
and
primitive
prehistoric
antiquities,
Romanian
religious
antiquities,
old
documents,
photographs,
medals
and
Dacian,
Greek,
Roman
and
Romanian
coins.
Ethnographic
material
collected
from
the
country’s
villages,
such
as
old
Wallachian
clothes
and
traditional
costumes
or
carved
wooden
household
tools,
were
exhibited
in
the
Ethnography
Section
(now
housed
in
Casa
Băniei).
Since
1928,
the
Regional
Museum
of
Antiquities
and
Ethnography
conjoined
with
the
Natural
History
Museum,
giving
birth
to
the
Regional
Museum
of
Oltenia.
Nowadays,
the
building
hosting
Oltenia
Museum’s
headquarters,
the
monumental
Ramuri
Palace,
also
houses
the
Archaeology
and
History
Section.
Here,
visitors
can
enjoy
over
20
collections
counting
approximately
110,000
cultural
items,
from
coins
and
medals
to
documents,
ceramics,
inscriptions,
weapons,
jewelry,
manuscripts,
old
books,
photographs,
military
objects
and
newspapers.
All
these
artifacts
have
been
donated
by
or
purchased
from
great
personalities
of
the
Romanian
culture
and
history,
such
as
Iancu
Jianu,
Mihail
Kogălniceanu,
Theodor
Aman,
Traian
Demetrescu,
Alexandru
Macedonski,
Nicolae
Romanescu
or
Nicolae
Titulescu.
Based
on
this
valuable
and
varied
cultural
heritage,
the
museum
presents,
in
a
modern
vision,
the
historical
destiny
of
Wallachia,
the
contribution
of
this
region
to
the
national
rebirth
and
shaping
of
the
Greater
Romania.
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