Images from the exhibition
The present exhibition– found in the building situated in 3, Piata Traian – the old centre of the city – which was raised in the first half of the 19th century – titled ‘Culture and civilization at the Lower Danube’ immerses the visitors into Braila’s past: the city and the mediaeval citadel (14th – 16th centuries), the Ottoman occupation (1538-1829), Braila’s liberation after the Russo-Turkish War (1828-1829), her re-annexation into the country’s boundaries and her development during the second half of the 19th century into the main part of the country, a powerful rival for the Russian port Odessa. Braila who became a great economic centre (in 1911 she was responsible for 80% of the sums that were making the entire foreign commerce of Romania) was considered as the real capital of the country by the contemporaries of that period whom were witnessing her unprecedented prosperity. The exhibition display also contains information: on the history of the city’s main institutions organized after 1830 in accordance with the country’s legislation (‘Maghistrat’ – Magistrature, Mayoralty, Law Court, Police, Telegraph, Post Office, etc.), on public utility aspects and town-planning rules. An important aspect is represented by: the re-organisation of the church after the dissolution of Proilavia Bishopric, the system of education and the city’s main cultural institutions: librairies, theatres and museums. A special place has the collection of registration and sound reproduction devices. The History Section ends with the recreation of a bourgeois room from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.