The Academy of Sciences of Moldova is hosting an exhibition of flags collected by Petru Costin, the founder of the Customs Service's Museum. The exhibited standards range from the first flag of the Geto-Dacians to Moldova's present flag, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting a communique from the Academy of Sciences. The exhibition includes more than 30 flags. Most of the exhibits are copies of the original flags of such capital cities and cultural centers as Bucharest, Moscow and others. “Regretfully, a large part of the flags could not be preserved. We know about their existence only from more or less exact descriptions of the chroniclers of that time,” Petru Costin said. He stated that the flag of the Geto-Dacians was restored after broad consultations with specialists. The Customs Service's Museum includes the war flags used during the rule of Stephan the Great, Ieremia Movila and Mihai Viteazul. As a result of restoration efforts, the collection was expanded with military flags of the Moldovan units in the Russian army (the 18th century), a series of flags of the Principate of Moldova (the 19th century) and of the rulers of that period, Tudor Vladimirescu's flag, the standard of the Moldovan Democratic Republic of 1917, Romanian flags used in the interwar period, etc. A valuable exhibit is the flag of the navy of the Principate of Moldova dating from the middle of the 19th century, when Moldova had access to the sea. The exhibition closes with Moldovan flags and models proposed by the commission for creating the national flag in 1990.