Conservation and restoration of the ethnographic heritage from ASTRA Museum - Dumbrava Sibiului

The purpose of the Project is to establish a centre for the conservation and restoration of Romanian ethnographic cultural heritage within the premises of the Open Air Astra Museum – Dumbrava Sibiului, with the overall objective of improving the protection and care of cultural heritage and its accessibility to the public. Reference is made to the application dated 11 June 2008, and to any subsequent correspondence with the Focal Point. The completed Project shall include the following activities and results: - construction and establishment of the 'Center for Conservation, Restoration and Valorisation of the Mobile Cultural Heritage' for conservation laboratories and storage facilities within the premises of the Open Air Astra Museum – ASTRA Centre for Heritage; - restoration of 45 items of hand-painted furniture; - reassembly of six wooden architectural heritage households / monuments; - preservation of 26 wooden historical traditional houses by a special surface hydrophobic waterproofing agent; - works for creation of a vertical water draining system, 350 m long, connecting the Centre to the existing sewerage system of the Open Air Astra Museum connected to the Sibiu sewerage system; - project management (coordination, monitoring and reporting, financial management and audit); and - publicity and information dissemination. The Project Promoter is the ASTRA Museum Complex. Subject to national law, the Project shall be implemented in partnership with SINTEF Building and Infrastructure Research Institute, Norway. The Focal Point shall ensure that the Sibiu County Council shall provide at least 15.58 percent of the estimated eligible Project cost as cash co-financing.