November 2023 – April 2024, National Roman Museum in Rome (Diocletian Baths).
About 1000 pieces from 47 museums in the country have been gathered in an event exhibition, the opening of which is just taking place in Rome: "Dacia. L'ultima frontiera della romanità", at the National Roman Museum in Rome (Diocletian Baths). The event marks a double anniversary for the Romanian-Italian bilateral relationship: 15 years since the signing of the consolidated strategic partnership between Romania and Italy and 150 years since the establishment of Romania's first diplomatic agency in Italy.
The project is designed and coordinated by the National History Museum of Romania, under the auspices of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, carried out in partnership with the Romanian Embassy in Italy, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Romanian Cultural Institute through the Accademia di Romania, benefiting from support from the Romanian Ministry of National Defense.
The exhibition is organized under the High Patronage of the President of Romania and the President of Italy and the MNIT representative at the opening is the manager Mark Felix.
The National History Museum of Transylvania participates in the exhibition with very important pieces from the Roman era and with a treasure dating from the era of migrations, discovered in the tombs of Gepid princesses, in Cluj-Polus. The first piece of the exhibition in Rome is one of the MNIT collection, unique in the world, namely a IV century Roman ballista, discovered in Orșova, within a late Roman fortification, in a corner tower, and which was also exhibited within the exhibition "Limes. The frontiers of the Roman Empire in Romania" (see the virtual tour of the exhibition here: https://www.mnit.ro/turlimes/). More precisely, it is about some components from a medium-sized ballista: one of the two elements (KAMBESTRION), into which the spring and the upper frame (KAMARION) of the ballista were inserted.
Based on these parts, some German specialists recreated it on a 1:1 scale.
The importance of the Romanian LIMES on the territory of Romania is gaining more and more recognition in the European context. In this sense, the manager Felix Marcu, the project coordinator Limes – The borders of the Roman Empire in Romania, will participate on Thursday, November 23, in Paris, at ICOMOS-UNESCO, to support the nomination file of the Romanian LIMES from the territory of Romania in the UNESCO heritage.
The exhibition "Dacia. L'ultima frontiera della romanità" will be open at the National Roman Museum in Rome until April 2024 and "is the largest and most valuable exhibition project of the last 25 years dedicated to the civilization of the Getae and Dacians, the Roman one as well as the civilizations of the first migrants in the area north of the Danube, in the period between VII BC and the end of the century VII BC." (MNIR)
