"Mircea cel Batran" Naval Academy Museum
Opened on the 1 st of February 2001, the museum hosts donations of the ones who were the Naval School-Naval Academy students, teachers, or members of their families. Their number rises today to several tens.
The basis exhibition distinguishes through original objects, mostly unique, organized in a pleasant and warm ambient. Besides the documentary value, most of them have a high affective-emotional print- the badge and epaulet embroidered with thread of corporal student from the Naval School (1939), the navigation work control (1935), the logbook ( student on ‘Mircea’, 1939), the letter from camp to mother (December 1944), or postcard from Aiud (1949).
The school and the vessel, the happy couple that gave birth to the ‘Mircea’ spirit, without which us the Romanians would be poorer, sadder, ‘Mircea’ is present in every room of the museum.
Most of the museum’s objects are in original and even the facsimiles (after Jean Bart manuscripts, kept at the Romanian Literature Museum, and Rear-Admiral Carol’s letter, Romania’s Prince, general inspector for marine, 1923, after the original kept at the Romania’s National Library) are exposed for the first time.
There are also pieces of resistance, from which we quote the wonderful manuscripts of the young Lieutenant Victor Vlad-Delamarina (1870-1896), written with minuteness and talent in tempera with a great artistic sense ‘Logbook. Mircea Brig’, 1891, ‘Summer Journeys of Romanian War Vessels’ 1895, Commander Eugeniu Botez (Jean Bart) family’s pendulum, together with Saint Mary’s icon, patron saint of sailors, and the candle that burns in the eternal memory of the former students of the Naval School, who died during the two World Wars, in prisons, in the Revolution from December 1989.
The second room evokes, through the documents’ power, Military Marine personalities: Lieutenant Nicolae Paraianu- his naval engineering and PhD diplomas in Italy – in the 1930’s, Lieutenant-Commander Virgil Laurentiu’s decorations, certificates, uniform pieces, photographs, and in pencil drawings, all accompanied by many and valuable books in his trunk. A newer donation, arrived from Iasi, evokes Commander Engineer Dumitru Ciobanu’s personality. There are exposed in the same area the decoration certificates, the law license diploma, the qualifier transcript with ‘Tres bon’, obtained at the Naval War School graduation in Paris, in 1928, by Lieutenant-Commander Horia Macallariu. And also belonging to the Admiral, that during September 1944- March 1945, was the headmaster of the Marine School, are the postcard- the only one that he sent to his family, in 1949, as no. 9329 prisoner at Aiud, the prison release ticket, after more than 16 years, in July 1964, his watch from 1935, the France Embassy invitation, from 1979, to participate at the celebration organized by the France President visit, Valery Giscard d’Estaing, in Bucharest, etc.
Another gift comes from France, from Mrs Oana Bujoreanu, whose father, the 1936 Naval School promotion chief, Jean-Marin Dumitrescu, who undertook an instruction voyage onboard the school-vessel ‘Jeanne d’Arc’, in 1937, around the earth. On this occasion, the lieutenant kept an interesting log, richly illustrated with photographs, and the nautical calculation notebook, which are kept in a showcase near the Commander Nicolae Valasoglu’s objects: the promotion watch, 1949, the identity card from the Marlag-Milag camp in Germany (August 1944-May 1945), two stamps with the same provenience and manuscripts.
Painter- Commander Dimitrie Stiubei (Naval School- 1921 promotion), is present through his paintings, in oil and tempera, marines, school-vessel ‘Mircea’, old age self-portrait, manuscripts, feedback from that time press, from Romania, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, photographs. His palette, brushes and glasses complete the evocation.
The room that reminds us of the school-vessel ‘Mircea’ couldn’t have been that ‘private’ without the help of the Navigation department and of the crew members, and in particular without the help of the Lieutenant-Commander Gheorghe-Iuliu Malinescu’s objects kept with such love for more than 6 decades, and gave as a present by his children, Silvia and George.
This year there will be 27 years since the school-vessel ‘Mircea’ crossed the Atalntic.
With the help of two participants’ donations, Vice-Admiral Gheorghe Sandu and Commander Alexandru Hirjan, the moment can be illustrated so that to show its importance.
The documentary background, that consists of over 800 titles, also obtained through donations of some works of shipping, navigation, artillery, electro-mechanic, naval history, geography, etc, urges both the teachers and the students, through the created environment, to study. Still here, Queen Mary’s mask rests, made by Milita Petrescu.
Present at many sport competitions, the ‘Mircea cel Batran’ Naval Academy students obtained cups and diplomas, occupying first places, some of them exposed in the museum. The anniversary in November 2002 of 130 years of Romanian marine education enriched the museum’s exhibition through the greetings and messages received, as well as through the objects issued by the ‘Mircea cel Batran’ Naval Academy on this occasion.
The basis exhibition distinguishes through original objects, mostly unique, organized in a pleasant and warm ambient. Besides the documentary value, most of them have a high affective-emotional print- the badge and epaulet embroidered with thread of corporal student from the Naval School (1939), the navigation work control (1935), the logbook ( student on ‘Mircea’, 1939), the letter from camp to mother (December 1944), or postcard from Aiud (1949).
The school and the vessel, the happy couple that gave birth to the ‘Mircea’ spirit, without which us the Romanians would be poorer, sadder, ‘Mircea’ is present in every room of the museum.
Most of the museum’s objects are in original and even the facsimiles (after Jean Bart manuscripts, kept at the Romanian Literature Museum, and Rear-Admiral Carol’s letter, Romania’s Prince, general inspector for marine, 1923, after the original kept at the Romania’s National Library) are exposed for the first time.
There are also pieces of resistance, from which we quote the wonderful manuscripts of the young Lieutenant Victor Vlad-Delamarina (1870-1896), written with minuteness and talent in tempera with a great artistic sense ‘Logbook. Mircea Brig’, 1891, ‘Summer Journeys of Romanian War Vessels’ 1895, Commander Eugeniu Botez (Jean Bart) family’s pendulum, together with Saint Mary’s icon, patron saint of sailors, and the candle that burns in the eternal memory of the former students of the Naval School, who died during the two World Wars, in prisons, in the Revolution from December 1989.
The second room evokes, through the documents’ power, Military Marine personalities: Lieutenant Nicolae Paraianu- his naval engineering and PhD diplomas in Italy – in the 1930’s, Lieutenant-Commander Virgil Laurentiu’s decorations, certificates, uniform pieces, photographs, and in pencil drawings, all accompanied by many and valuable books in his trunk. A newer donation, arrived from Iasi, evokes Commander Engineer Dumitru Ciobanu’s personality. There are exposed in the same area the decoration certificates, the law license diploma, the qualifier transcript with ‘Tres bon’, obtained at the Naval War School graduation in Paris, in 1928, by Lieutenant-Commander Horia Macallariu. And also belonging to the Admiral, that during September 1944- March 1945, was the headmaster of the Marine School, are the postcard- the only one that he sent to his family, in 1949, as no. 9329 prisoner at Aiud, the prison release ticket, after more than 16 years, in July 1964, his watch from 1935, the France Embassy invitation, from 1979, to participate at the celebration organized by the France President visit, Valery Giscard d’Estaing, in Bucharest, etc.
Another gift comes from France, from Mrs Oana Bujoreanu, whose father, the 1936 Naval School promotion chief, Jean-Marin Dumitrescu, who undertook an instruction voyage onboard the school-vessel ‘Jeanne d’Arc’, in 1937, around the earth. On this occasion, the lieutenant kept an interesting log, richly illustrated with photographs, and the nautical calculation notebook, which are kept in a showcase near the Commander Nicolae Valasoglu’s objects: the promotion watch, 1949, the identity card from the Marlag-Milag camp in Germany (August 1944-May 1945), two stamps with the same provenience and manuscripts.
Painter- Commander Dimitrie Stiubei (Naval School- 1921 promotion), is present through his paintings, in oil and tempera, marines, school-vessel ‘Mircea’, old age self-portrait, manuscripts, feedback from that time press, from Romania, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, photographs. His palette, brushes and glasses complete the evocation.
The room that reminds us of the school-vessel ‘Mircea’ couldn’t have been that ‘private’ without the help of the Navigation department and of the crew members, and in particular without the help of the Lieutenant-Commander Gheorghe-Iuliu Malinescu’s objects kept with such love for more than 6 decades, and gave as a present by his children, Silvia and George.
This year there will be 27 years since the school-vessel ‘Mircea’ crossed the Atalntic.
With the help of two participants’ donations, Vice-Admiral Gheorghe Sandu and Commander Alexandru Hirjan, the moment can be illustrated so that to show its importance.
The documentary background, that consists of over 800 titles, also obtained through donations of some works of shipping, navigation, artillery, electro-mechanic, naval history, geography, etc, urges both the teachers and the students, through the created environment, to study. Still here, Queen Mary’s mask rests, made by Milita Petrescu.
Present at many sport competitions, the ‘Mircea cel Batran’ Naval Academy students obtained cups and diplomas, occupying first places, some of them exposed in the museum. The anniversary in November 2002 of 130 years of Romanian marine education enriched the museum’s exhibition through the greetings and messages received, as well as through the objects issued by the ‘Mircea cel Batran’ Naval Academy on this occasion.
