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The new museum can be set up, after the Government, in its Wednesday sitting, approved the transfer of the Tobacco Warehouse from the Finance Ministry to the Ministry of Culture and made it available to the Moldova (Moldavia) Museum Complex.
Thus, the building known as the Tobacco Warehouse that used to belong to the cigarette factory, a building listed as a historical monument, will allow the specialists of the Stefan Procopiu Museum of Science and Technique, part in the Moldova Museum Complex to organize here exhibition spaces, warehouses and a fact-finding and information center.

The new museum is to shelter the technical patrimony currently standing in several other locations. This way, former big factories such as Nicolina, Fabrica de Bere (Brewery), Tepro and Combinatul de Utilaj Greu (Heavy Equipment Works) will no longer be only in the memory of those who used to work there, but they will be also presented to the coming generations willing to get information about the past technological heritage.

The industrial archeology, a relatively new field in Romania wants to draw the attention to the work and its place in the social context of the manufacturing process, of the equipment and constructions. It is an interdisciplinary field studying the material and the non-material evidence of the documents, artifacts, structures, human settlements and urban or natural landscapes created for or by the industrial process.