Dear colleagues, 
As promised, I am presenting you the technical details on the damages made
by the floods in the Romanian museum "Astra", from Sibiu. In fact, it is a
letter signed by the manager and the deputy manager of the museum. Any help,
provided in money, materials and/or advice would be appreciated. If you
could help them, please, address Mr. Corneliu Bucur and Mr. Valeriu Olaru
directly, at the following address: [log in to unmask]
With all my gratitude,
Virgil Stefan NITULESCU
Vicechair of the Romanian National Committee
CAMERA DEPUTATILOR
Str. Izvor nr. 2-4, sect. 5
706471 Bucuresti
ROMANIA
tel:+40.21.4021284
fax:+40.21.3142913

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
>       We would like to inform you about the recent extreme weather
> conditions that Sibiu has experienced (torrential downpours and violent
> storms, with increased surface water values). As a result the monuments in
> the Open-air Museum from Dumbrava, in Sibiu, (the main department of the
> National Complex "Astra" Museum) have suffered extreme structural damages.
>       The last report, dated September 9, 2002, written by the museum's
> facilities manager, is quite alarming. It states that 29 monuments need
> immediate repair due to structural damage caused by the water. At the time
> this report was written, the downpours had not subsided, this had negative
> consequences for the buildings' preservation and also for the movable
> inventory sheltered by these.
>       The lack of funds necessary for the conservation-restoration works,
> which are imposed immediately in these situations, is compromising our
> efforts in this field, its consequences being difficult to evaluate on a
> middle and long term. 
>       On the background of our institution's financial impossibility to
> fund the needed restoration works of the degraded roofs, the findings of
> the museum's general responsible for preservation are very alarming as 42
> buildings display rain infiltration and extended biological attacks. The
> unfulfilment of the radical works of stopping the biological degradation,
> replacement of the degraded roofs, which are mainly made by organic
> materials (straw, reed, shingles, creeping stalks etc.), will rapidly
> increase the all monuments' deterioration, in a geometrical progression.
>       According to the costs estimation the most urgent
> preservation-restoration works for the monuments which are threatened by
> the major degradation produced by rain infiltration, biological attacks or
> channels clogging would cost 15,081 EUR, divided as it follows:
> 1- Repairing of the straw-roofs 
>       -Homestead from Mierta (shed)
>       -Homesteads from Apuseni (shed from Tomutesti and house from
> Stanesti)
>       -House from Saschiz
>       -Larder from Rastolt
>                               Total 1 = 2,559 EUR
> 
> 2-Repairings of the shingle-roofs 
>       -Windmill from Dunavat
>       -Windmill from Curcani
>       -Homestead from Corund (oven)
>                               Total 2 = 1,452 EUR
> 
> 3-Repairings and replacement of the fir-tree shingles-roofs
>       -Sheepfold from Magura
>       -Sheepfold from Puru
>       -Watermill from Dabaca
>       -Watermill from Orsova
>       -House from Calinesti
>       -House from Berbesti
>       -Oven from Marginea
>       -Oven from Sacel
>       -House from Saliste
>       -House from Straja
>                               Total 3 = 7,289 EUR
> 
> 4-Repairings of the tile-roofs
>       -Oil-press from Nadasdia
>       -Candle-maker workshop from Sebes
>                               Total 4 = 1,765 EUR
> 
> 5-Cleaning the clogging of the watermills' channels
>       -Floating mill from Munteni
>       -Floating mill from Lucăcesti
>       -Watermill from Svinita ("button" replacement)
>                               Total 5 = 2,016 EUR
> 
>       TOTAL = 15,081 EUR
> 
>       We are acknowledging you that the preservation-restoration works to
> be made at the monuments which are included into the programme "The
> Emergency Museology" and which were transmitted to the Ministry of Culture
> and Religious Affairs with a view to their financing are not on the
> present list.
>       Thank for your co-operation and support.
> 
> 
> Prof. Corneliu Bucur Ph.D.                            Valeriu Olaru
> 
> General Director                      Head of the Preservation Laboratory
>                       Deputy Director
> 
> 

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