ESC: Cultures and Heritage through Museum Education - VT3

The National Museum of Romanian History / Muzeul Național de Istorie a României (MNIR) is a national public body, a cultural and research organization (museum). MNIR was established in 1970 and was opened to the public in 1972, being one of the representative institutions of the Romanian culture, the biggest organization of this kind in Romania and one of the most important in South-Eastern and Central Europe. Its headquarters, located on 12 Calea Victoriei, is a historical monument - the former Palace of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones, an emblematic building of Bucharest and Romania.
The number of MNIR’s staff is approximately 150 employees (management; specific positions: researcher, curator, conservator, restorer, photographer, custodian; positions specific to the Financial, Administrative, HR and Legal departments etc.), to them can be added a variable number (dozens) of external collaborators and volunteers on contract basis (about 30-40 per year).
In the last decade, MNIR has cooperated with the majority of the national and county history and art museums in Romania, with the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE), the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI), the National Archives, the Universities of Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca, the National Bank of Romania (BNR), municipalities, embassies and foreign cultural institutes in Romania, with several NGOs, in order to organize exhibitions and major cultural events.