Expoziția Cultura Cucuteni: apogeul artei preistorice europene și al XX-lea Congres Mondial al Uniunii Internaționale de Științe Preistorice și Protoistorice „Interdisciplinaritate în Arheologie” în cadrul evenimentului Timișoara 2023.
The exhibition „Cucuteni Culture: Apogee of European Prehistoric Art” and The 20th World Congress of The International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences „Interdisciplinarity in Archaeology” during the „Timișoara 2023.

Summary/Abstract: In 18 May - 1 October 2023, during the event Timișoara 2023. European Capital of Culture, in the Baroque Palace, the exhibition Cucuteni Culture: Apogee of European Prehistoric Art has been organised by Neamț National Museum Complex, Romanian Academy – Timișoara Branch, National Museum of Art in Timișoara and „Politehnica” University in Timișoara. The exhibition brought together the most important collection of prehistoric art in Eastern Europe, consisting exclusively of prestigious artefacts (vases, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic representations, ornaments and cult objects), masterpieces of decorative and figurative art, belonging to the most important civilisation of Old Europe – the Cucuteni culture. All the pieces are part of the patrimony of the Cucuteni Eneolithic Art Museum „Gheorghe Dumitroaia”, the History and Archaeology Museum, both in Piatra-Neamț, the History Museum in Roman and the History and Ethnography Museum in Târgu Neamț. This is practically the most important exhibition organized by the Neamț National Museum Complex, an institution that currently holds the richest collection of Cucuteni artefacts (of common use and prestige) in Romania. The cultural event in Timișoara is a special opportunity for our institution to continue the tradition started in Thessaloniki (Greece) in 1997 and continued in Sibiu (Romania) in 2007, that of organizing exhibitions of prestigious Cucuteni artefacts in the European Capitals of Culture. In 3-10 September West University in Timișoara hosted the XXth World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences and the scientists, contributors to this event, had the opportunity to visit our exhibition.

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