AGENCY FOR INSPECTION AND RESTORATION OF MONUMENTS

Agency for Inspection and Restoration of Monuments of Moldova is a public body founded in 2011 which plays a special and truly significant role in protection of cultural and historical heritage of Moldova and Chisinau, its capital, in particular. Unfortunately the current situation with the historical monuments is very poor and precarious and now we officially beat an alarm on the possible total disappearance of the cultural and historical heritage. The historical monuments are being destroyed, demolished and rebuilt not in a proper way, all this increases possible lose of the cultural heritage and urban citizenship. In this context activities of Agency are extremely important and essential especially taken into account the fact that the Agency is the only one public institution whose aims refer to this problem. The main aim of the Agency is to protect cultural, historical, architectural, archaeological heritages of Moldova and raise awareness about its salvation as well as contribute to its salvation by different means of support and protection - help with preparation of public lectures and presentations which are focused on heritage protection and raising awareness towards the actual problems; - working on power-point or other presentation of different case studies and heritage entities (especially after site-visiting); - assistance in preparing leaflets and other promotional materials which could be distributed on the streets and during special events the Agency takes part in; - assistance and support in preparatory phase of events' organization. For example, Agency takes part in annual Days of European Heritage in Moldova, which take part in September each year. During these days Agency presents some work results, analyses current situation and gives diplomas to those to contributed in heritage protection and etc.; - working on video preparations and photo-presentations on case-studies and the problem of responsibility towards the heritage in general.