The Ianca Museum, founded by history professor Ion Barbuceanu, a collector of old objects, who managed to save from oblivion and destruction over 1,000 heritage pieces, has recently won a project with non-reimbursable financing worth 80,000 RON, aimed at 3D scanning, by using state-of-the-art technologies, of the artifacts that are found in the museum institution from Ianca city, the County of Braila.

Entitled "Accessibility through digitization of patrimonial fund 'Ianca Museum'. School workshops for 3D cataloguing and scanning", the project is funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN) and runs over four months, August-November 2022.

The Ianca Museum was founded on December 1, 1999, under the authority of an NGO, the Cultural-Historical Association Ianca Museum, and its founder, Professor Ion Barbuceanu, today aged 76, managed, in all these years, to gather around him young people from all walks of life and to put into practice several projects to promote places and museum heritage, based on volunteering, donations, sponsorships and non-reimbursable financing.

The project "Accessibility through digitization of patrimonial fund 'Ianca Museum'. Workshops for cataloguing and 3D scanning" started in August, and for five days, at the Museum headquarters, several workshops were held for cataloguing and 3D scanning of the museum heritage. Eight high school students and four undergraduates, coordinated by representatives of the Ianca Museum and specialists from the Carol I Museum of Braila, the National Institute of Heritage - Digital Directorate and the Faculty of Telecommunication of the Russian University in Bulgaria, worked on cataloguing in the DocPat system and photographing 300 museum pieces, of which 30 were scanned in 3D.

The project also aims to develop a transmedia storytelling communication strategy, due to start in October. Thus, the working group will contribute to the accessibility through digitization of the Ianca Museum heritage fund and will support the promotion of local values at national level.

Regarding the novelties prepared by the Ianca Museum, in October, the opening of the exhibition "Smaranda Braescu - the heroine of the sky - paratrooper and aviator" and the action of planting trees "Oaks for Heroes" are scheduled, which will take place in the former village of Filiu and will be organized together with several NGOs and the Braila Garrison.

Called the "Ianca phenomenon", the Ianca Museum can also be visited online, on the www.muzeulianca.ro, through a project realized with the help of a sponsorship.

Currently, the Ianca Museum hosts, in the A Building, the Art Section, which includes 25 paintings painted and donated by Georgeta Crainic, daughter of the city of Ianca, established in Canada, the museum library, a permanent photo exhibition dedicated to the Great Union and the Centenary with the title "King Ferdinand - the Unifier of the country - and Queen Maria - soldier, diplomat and writer". In the B building there are the halls with permanent exhibitions entitled: "The local tradition", which includes Romanian traditional costumes and musical instruments specific to the area; "old school", where there are a collection of school furniture, teaching materials, school books - all from the interwar period; "The ancient church" - where we find religious cult objects, heritage icons, photographs with priests ministers; "Aviation Section" - related to the recent history of the former Military Aerodrome from Ianca, and in the lobby of the building there is an exhibition of national costumes, pieces from the peasant culture and agricultural tools.

The C Building represents an authentic peasant house from Oprisenesti village, over 100 years old, which Professor Barbuceanu managed to move and bring to the courtyard of the museum. The relocation took place between 2011-2012, the co-founder managing to convince the owners of the house, built between 1909-1910, with which he was a fellow villager, to donate it to the museum. The interior of the house reproduces the daily dwelling of a family of peasants from the Plain of Braila.

The D Building is represented by the deposit of tools, called shed, in which tools from the plain area of Braila, a chariot, several carts, different plows, tools that highlight the agricultural civilization specific to this ethnographic area are exhibited. In the inner courtyard of the museum a model of the peasant household from the area is arranged, where we find the summer kitchen, the bower, the fountain with watershed and the stone trough for animals, the dovecote and the birdhouse, all these being achieved through a project financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund.AGERPRES(RO - author: Ecaterina Ignat, editor: Georgiana Tanasescu; EN - editor: Maria Voican)