Romania’s Museum of Abandonment (Muzeul Abandonului) is one of the five cultural projects shortlisted in the Best Use of Digital category of the 2024 Museums + Heritage Awards. The winners will be announced at a live ceremony in London in May.
Now in its 22nd year, the Museums + Heritage Awards is one of the world’s leading museum and heritage industry events, recognizing excellence and innovation in the field.
The Museum of Abandonment is an independent, digital, and participatory museum born in 2021. Its aim is to “explore an immense collective trauma that was never really recognized and publicly disseminated,” namely the hundreds of thousands of children who were abandoned during the years of communism and the recent history of Romania.
Read more about it in this articole from Romania Insider.