The National History Museum of Romania announces the opening of the exhibition “Dacia. The last frontier of Romania”. The opening will take place on Thursday, and the exhibition can be visited from Friday until March 2023, except Mondays and Tuesdays. Exhibits from 45 museums of the country were brought for her.

The museum says it is the largest synthetic exhibition devoted to the Getae and Dacian civilizations, the Roman, and the first migrants to this space, organized in the last 25 years.

The exhibition is organized in chronological order according to six themes:

• The final stage of the first Iron Age and the connections of the local inhabitants with the Scythian world are presentedꓽ ceramics, weapons and jewelry characteristic of late Hallstatt cultures;

• Terra Dacorumꓽ is dedicated to the ancient civilizations that developed on the territory of Romania during the second Iron Age – the Late Iron Age. The central role belongs to the Geto-Dacian civilization in the space defined by the western coast of the Black Sea, the Carpathian Basin and the Danube River;

• Pax Romanaꓽ aims to offer the visitor a synthetic picture of the Roman way of life in the space of the provinces of Dacia and Lower Moesia, emphasizing specific aspects characteristic of this area;

• At the gates of the empireꓽ is dedicated to the communities in the space previously inhabited by the Geto-Dacians, the transformations they undergo in the context of the new realities generated by the presence of the empire and the coexistence of the free Dacians with the Germans and the Sarmatian tribes settled here in the first three centuries of the Christian era;

• The construction of Terra Christianaꓽ the period 4-7 centuries BC is characterized by three decisive historical milestones for this space: the withdrawal of the army and administration from the province of Dacia, the penetration of Christianity and the great resettlement of peoples;

• “Barbarians” and the empire – the transformation of the Roman world – everyday life and conflictꓽ a review of the writings of late antiquity about Dacia, the perception of the Danube as a political and symbolic border, one of the main landmarks of the political initiatives of the era. The empire or some peoples in migration are outlined. At the same time, during the IV-VII centuries, the territory north of the Lower Danube was also the territory of the continuity of the provincial Roman civilization and the cultural synthesis of its heritage with the cultures of various Germanic, Iranian, Slavic or Central Asian migrants.

Some examples of exhibits

The following exhibits will be presented from the collection of the National History Museum of Romania: a golden helmet from Cotsofenesti, Getic treasures from Stiancesti, Aghigiol, Peretu, a Gettic princely treasure from Cucuteni-Beiceni, the inventory of a Getic tomb. a leader from Popesti, Dacian silver hoards from Sancraeni, Gerestrau, Seneres, Vedea, two unknown hoards from PD-Romania, inscriptions commemorating the Dacian kings Tiamarcus, Burebista and Decebalus, imperial portraits of Trajan, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Trajan Decius, Sarmatians treasures from the county of Buzeu and Smardan, treasures from Pietroasele, Apagida and Histria (migration era).

Examples from the collections of the partner museums: Migration period treasures discovered in the tombs of some princesses, in Cluj-Napoca and Turda (from the heritage of the National Museum of Transylvania and the History Museum of Turda), a deposit of weapons and Greek bronze objects from Olanest, as well as gold objects from tombs of the Sarmatian princess from Mokra, Republic of Moldova, from the heritage of the National Historical Museum of Moldova in Chisinau, ceramic vessels, weapons, tools and ornaments from common metals, illustrating the evolution of civilizations that succeeded each other in space from the north of the Danube in the period between VII BC .is. and until the end of the VII century AD

“We invite you on a journey of more than 1,400 years in time, in space, in the universe, where the ancestors of the Geto-Dacians evolved into what ancient sources call Getae and Dacians, a civilization they developed before conquering and turning part of Dacia into a Romanian province , the integration of this space into the Roman world, the survival of the Roman provincial civilization after the abandonment of Dacia by the Roman army and administration, and the coexistence of local residents with the migratory population, “say the representatives of the MNIR.