AGERPRES’s photography archive is presented in an exhibition opened Tuesday at the National Museum of Romanian History (MNIR). Ernest Oberlander-Tarnoveanu, director of the museum, stressed the historical value of this heritage.
“AGERPRES is not only an interface of Romania with the world news, but it is also the depository of a huge treasure of information stored on film, audio tape, in printed form,” said the MNIR director.
He stressed the importance of the AGERPRES archive digitization project and asserted that the exhibition is a first step in the future collaboration between the MNIR and the National News Agency.
“It is an exhibition that started from an extremely important project, the one of digitization of the archive, and I’m very glad, as a person who has dedicated his life to saving and preserving the national cultural heritage, that an institution such important as AGERPRES, which certainly is not through the nature of his office an institution dedicated to the preservation of the heritage, does this work for which we could not be grateful enough, namely store on a digital support this historical heritage,” said Oberlander-Tarnoveanu.
In his turn, the AGERPRES director Alexandru Giboi emphasized the importance of the public information mission of his institution. More…