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Brigade General Catalin Zisu chief of Directorate of Administration and Services received Friday May 7, 04 at “Haiducului” Military Hotel the Belgian delegation headed by professor Ph. D. Patrick Lefevre, director of the Royal Museum of the Army from Brussels and president of the International Association of the Military Museums and Armament Collections.
They made an exchange of experience on the structure, patrimony, function and role of the National Military Museum from Bucharest in comparison with those of the Royal Museum. They also analyzed the possibilities of the two institutions cooperation and the Belgian guests offered their support in the National Military Museum transformation from an Armed Forces representative institution in an one for the foreigners, an important part of the international environment of the museums.
The Belgian side made few suggestions of cooperation with the Romanian side, such as: organization of a permanent exhibition of the National Military Museum at the Royal Museum; invitation of the National Military Museum to become a member of the International Association of Military Museums and Armament Collections; participation to an international project for museums called Hall of the 20th Century, a hall of exhibition representing the European history since 1918 till now organized on three levels representing 1918-44, 1944-45 and 1945-nowadays.
The Belgian delegation will visit Bruckental museum from Sibiu and the museums from Sighisoara and Bran.
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