The exhibition brings together maps from the early days of European cartography, comprising some of the most renowned cartographers of the mouths of the Danube and the Western Black Sea such as Lorenz Fries, Guillaume de L’Isle, Johann Homann or Mattheus Seutteri. The maps included reflect the sequential technological stages and advances in the field of typography and engraving.
The “Political and Cultural Diplomacy. Statesmen as Authors” exhibition is included in the “Recent History and Future Anticipation” research programme undertaken by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization and presents rare books, with bespoke dedications, received by President Emil Constantinescu from their illustrious authors.
The exhibition offers a framework for reflection on the ways in which the culture of peace can become an ethical foundation for conviviality for future generations, and represents a recognition of continuous engagement in the promotion of intercultural dialogue, regional reconciliation and democracy.
The exhibition titled “Artefacts from the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Near East and Northern Africa” constitutes an invitation to embark upon a journey that traverses millennia of history across a geographical space rendered fascinating by the cultural density that characterized it from Antiquity onwards.
The exhibition presents a selection of the religious orders and medals conferred unto President Emil Constantinescu by notable political and religious figures.
The exhibition, included in the research project “Recent History and Future Anticipation” was realized with the support of the Romanian Foundation for Democracy, and includes facsimiles of high-level correspondence and photographs of official events that marked the course of Romania’s accession to NATO.
The solemn and intimate exhibition is dedicated to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, offering viewers an incursion into the refinement of Byzantine religious art and the liturgical traditions of Eastern Christianity.
The exhibition showcases five maps published between the 16th and 19th centuries in Europe’s major typographic centres for cartographic materials, drawn from the collection of the President of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, Professor Emil Constantinescu.
The exhibition aims to be an expressive effort that emboldens the viewer to come to know and visit some of the most interesting sites across Dobrogea, while also conveying a message to the authorities charged with administering these heritage values with a view towards their adequate protection and development.
The exhibition presents copies of a series of important Christian manuscripts written in Arabic, Syriac and Garshuni (Arabic written in Syriac characters), preserved in various collections in the Middle East and constituting an essential part of the Christian heritage of the Levant.
The exhibition titled Romania, Garden of the Madonna. 25 years from the first visit of a Sovereign Pontiff to a majority-Orthodox country after the Great Schism of 1054 does not limit itself to merely covering the three days of Pope John Paul II’s sojourn in Romania (May 7th-9th, 1999), also attempting to present the plethora of political and religious initiatives and efforts that constituted the preliminaries of the visit, while also detailing some of its most impactful consequences.
The exhibition showcases impressive editions of the sacred texts of Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Protestantism, Neo-Protestantism, Judaism, Islam and Confucianism, drawn from the Emil Constantinescu Collection of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization.
Organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization in partnership with the National Museum of Geology and the Romanian Geological Institute, the „Treasures and testimonies of appreciation. Minerals. Artefacts from precious metals and semi-precious stones. The Emil Constantinescu Collection” exhibition represents the premiere occasion on which over one thousand individual items from the personal collection of Emil Constantinescu have been made accessible to the general public in a museal setting. The items – mineral collections, geological samples, decorative objects made from precious metals and semi-precious stones, diplomas, medals, rare volumes, knightly Orders, other awards and decorations – stand as the tangible testimonies of the appreciation shown to Mr Constantinescu over the course of his 55 years of academic career and 80 years of life.
