The lack of funds hinders the work of museums. The best specialist leave and the few restoration works that continue aren’t sufficient. Deputy Minister of Culture Gheorghe Postica told a round table that 64% of museum buildings need repairs, Info-Prim Neo reports. Gheorghe Postica says that a big part of the museum items cannot be exhibited for a long time because the restoration works are costly. Yearly, only 1000 exhibits are restored. The restoration of all the historical items of national heritage would require 48 years. The wages in the museum field are among the lowest in the country at an average of 1567 lei per month, said the Minister. He thinks a solution would be to raise the ticket prices so that the institutions didn’t depend that much on funding from the state. Director of Moldova’s National Art Museum Tudor Zbarnea says that this situation was reached because in 1993 no legislative amendments had been made regarding the financial activity of museums. “We can’t increase the ticket prices. The exhibition space is small and I wouldn’t give even two lei for a visit to the museum. Only 6.8% of the museum items are exhibited and it’s well-known there is no collection that is permanently exhibited. The exhibitions are filled in periodically. Sometimes it’s three years of work. As regards the museographers’ wages, I must be cynical to employ someone and tell this person she or he will only have money for transport and food. The proposed policies must provide concrete solutions instead of becoming one more dusted file in the drawer”, declared Tudor Zbarnea. There are 119 museums in Moldova. 54 are history museums, 34 are ethnographical, 15 memorials, 10 are for studying the region, 3 of natural sciences, two of arts and one of literature.