Institutul Național al Patrimoniului


: Jul 24, 2016


Looking for Partnership
About Me

The National Heritage Institute of Romania is a public institution of national importance, subordinated to the Ministry of Culture and National Identity. The Institute has approx. 120 employees and it manages the funds for research, expertise and execution of consolidation-restoration works and valorization of historical monuments; collecting, processing and disseminating the information regarding the movable and intangible cultural heritage, cultural institutions, theater collections, cultural personalities; creating the platforms for content uploading; administrating the inventory of intangible heritage. The institution is also a result of a cross-sector cooperation, consisting of for distinct entities: the Institute for Cultural Memory, the National Institute for Historical Monuments, the National Office of Historical Monuments and the National Center for the Conservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture.

 

The Digital Heritage Department is a department of the Institute that has created and has been administrating the national databases of culture heritage: National Archaeological Repertory, Romanian Museums and Collections Database, the Inventory of Movable Assets, classified as national cultural heritage, and other public databases that you can visit on our website. We work with the Geographical Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing, aerial photography analysis, cartography (history recomposed by/using maps) and we developed a special web GIS application for mapping the cultural assets: National Map Server for Cultural Heritage. As a secondary activity it is working on digitizing important museum publications, documentary archives (contained on atypical materials or created using special rare techniques) with the purpose of uploading them in our Digital Library of Cultural Publications, and in the European digital library, as the National Aggregator for Europeana.

 

The Institute has collaborated, through the Digital Heritage Department, in various projects, with Romanian or European financing, such as: Europe – ArcLand; Carare- Connecting Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana, Athena Plus-access to cultural heritage networks for Europeana,  Heritage at the crossroads – Digitization of stone crosses and heroes monuments from the First World War in Prahova Country, Romania; ProEuropeana – the Digital Cultural Publication of Romania; 3D Perspectives on Prehistory. Gumelnita Civilization Museum Heritage in the light of new information technologies; Archaeological Landscapes. Perspectives, history, evolutions.

 

 

Keywords and matching areas:

 Cultural heritage
 Cultural Management
 Culture and Development
 Museum
 Photography
 Theatre
 Creative Europe
 European Union
 EEA and Norway Grants

Ideas in Progress

Favourite Calls
No Favourite calls!