The National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History is organizing a workshop where all those who want can learn to pain Easter eggs. The workshop is held annually, two weeks before Easter. Elena Gumenea, the head of the Museum’s PR Division, has told Info-Prim Neo that the museum keeps the tradition of staging an egg painting workshop before the Easter holidays. “Unfortunately, this craft disappeared from the country’s cultural sphere when the Soviet regime was established. As a promoter of the national value, the Museum started to gradually revive this craft by the egg painting workshop and the Easter exhibition. An egg painting class works throughout the year. The workshop is organized under the aegis of the PR Division. At the beginning, the lessons were taught by craftswoman Angela Don from Lalova village. All the members of the Division acquired this skill and can teach all those who want to know this art,” said Elena Gumenea. The workshop is staged the ninth year. “We are visited by students, adults, teachers, priests, persons from all the groups. We were honored with visits by wives of ambassadors working in Chisinau. Persons from European countries will come next week to study this craft. It’s not hard to learn it, but one should have aptitudes for painting,” said Elena Gumenea. The painted eggs remain at the museum and are displayed at an exhibition themed “Third day after Easter”. Museographer Vera Cristea said that before painted the eggs are emptied with a syringe and washed. The drawing is made with a pencil and then the parts that should remain white are covered with wax. Afterward, the egg is put in paint of different colors. The painting is finalized with different brushes and tools. Making a simple painting on an egg lasts for about an hour, while a more complicated one – up to three hours.