Abstract
The concern regarding the preservation of the mobile and immobile patrimony was one of the prevalent initiatives during the rule of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, together with the impropriation of monastery goods and the development of concerns over national history. To this end, special committees were established, organized on regions, that would assess the state of the monuments and take inventory of the old items found in churches, monasteries and sketes. The aim was to bring these historical items to Bucharest, in order to compile the treasury of the future museums, that would form the foundation of an education in the spirit of national values. An important contribution to the salvaging of the heritage items was the one of Alexandru Odobescu, Cezar Bolliac, Colonel Dimitrie Papazoglu.