The President of the Iaşi County Council, Costel Alexe, declared that the restoration of Ion Creangă’s Bojdeuca was done in compliance with all the stages of the project, he affirmed that the restoration of the cultural heritage in Iaşi County is done with a sense of responsibility.
Costel Alexe stated, on Monday, that the restoration of Bojdeuca was carried out with appropriate means, and the goal was “to stop the deterioration process and preserve the cultural significance of the first literary museum in Romania”.
“The restoration of Bojdeucia is a project undertaken and implemented. The Iaşi County Council did everything it could, considering the implementation of this project. The County Council accessed European funds. Being European funds, CJ Iaşi always kept in touch with ADR Nord-Est The Iaşi County Council, together with the financier, made sure that all stages of the project were respected”, stated the president of the Iaşi County Council, Costel Alexe, quoted by News.ro.
At the same time, he explained that the institution he leads is the one that obtained European funding, but that the project was executed under the guidance of specialists.
“When it comes to the restoration of the cultural heritage of our county, we do it with a sense of responsibility, precisely not to alter anything that practically gave life to these areas”, said the president of the CJ Iaşi.
The Minister of Culture, Raluca Turcan, requested, on Monday, the Control Body to verify the legality of the opinion for the intervention carried out on the historical monument “Bojdeuca sritorului Ion Creangă”, and the National Commission of Historical Monuments and the National Institute for Heritage will be asked to pronounce on the quality of the intervention , by analyzing the project and by traveling to the site.
Also on Monday, the prefect of Iasi, Bogdan Cojocaru, asked the Directorate for Culture and the State Construction Inspectorate to check how the modernization works were carried out at Ion Creangă’s Bojdeuca. The prefect of Iași claims that the people of Iași deserve to know why the restoration of the monument turned into a national controversy.
The restoration of Ion Creangă’s Bojdeucia, considered a “luxury prop” or a “banal pension of two daisies”, with parquet and sockets, was carried out with appropriate means, claims the Iaşi County Council, with the aim of stopping the deterioration process and preserving the meaning cultural of the first literary museum in Romania.
Personalities and readers have expressed their astonishment about how Bojdeuca lui Creangă looks now: with a cupboard, sockets, laminate flooring and like a guesthouse of two daisies.
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