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one who has cared him until his life’s ending. All his stories and childhood memories
have been written in the house named ”hut” by the writer. In the summer and autumn of
1876, Mihai Eminescu lived here as a renter of Creangă. The building which is hosting
the documentary exhibition referring Creangă’s life and opera, the library, as long as the
outdoor amphitheatre were built in the 1984-1989 period, and open in the date of 11-th
June 1989,during the centenary of the great storyteller’s death. 5 .
Vasile Alecsandri Museum was open for the public in 1928, with the support of the
Romanian Academy. The House from Mirceşti, belonging to Vasile Alecsandri became
memorial museum in the year of 1957 and was re-organised in 1987, and restored in the
years of 1991-1992, 1998. The permanent exhibition includes photos, paintings,
manuscripts, journals, rare books, various objects which constitute themselves in a
suggestive road of Alecsandri’s life and opera 6 . There are impressing especially the
vintage atmosphere, the rooms in which there are exposed furniture objects, objects
which he has used, souvenirs collected from his trips. In the park, situated in the front of
the house, the writer’s mausoleum, ordered by the Romanian Academy in 1928 7 , can be
found.
Sf. Ierarh Dosoftei Museum hosts the Romanian old literature section, the building was
the office of the second priting press from Iasi, in 1677-1686 period. Thanks to the
canonization of bishop Dosoftei (2005), the museum’s name became Saint Hierarch
Dosoftei Bishop 8 .
Mihai Codreanu Museum’s house is preserved almost like how it looked in the time
when the poet’s life, with all the artistic values, with the library, the work office, the
living room, the bedroom and all the others annexes. 9 .
Vasile Pogor House, the place where the Junimea’s meetings were held: the building
was built between years 1855-1858 by Vasile Pogor. At the end of February 1870, here
were read the first lyrics set to the Literary Conversations, of Eminescu. Here in the main
room from the first floor, „Junimea’s room” outstanding writers for the Romanian
literature read: Eminescu, Caragiale, Creangă, Maiorescu, Conta, Xenopol 10 , etc.
Other branches of the Romanian Literature Museum are also Otilia Cazimir Museum,
which became memorial museum in 1972, Mihail Sadoveanu Museum, open in 1980,
George Topârceanu Museum, Mihai Eminescu Museum, the building from Culture Park
Copou being open in 1989, as a tribute for the poet, at the Centenary of his death.
Constantin Negruzzi Museum was inaugurated in 7-th of October 1995, today having a
documentary exhibition and museographic reconstitution of four memorial rooms 11 .
In Botoşani there is also a memorial house which cannot be avoided, Mihai Eminescu
Memorial House (Fig. 2) from Ipoteşti. It is arranged in the place where the great poet has
lived and it was inaugurated in 1940. In the courtyard of Eminescu’s memorial house
there is Papadopol House, vintage farmhouse in Moldavian style, which was owned by
5 http://www.muzeulliteraturiiiasi.ro/muzee/muzeul-ion-creanga-bojdeuca-9/
6 http://www.muzeulliteraturiiiasi.ro/muzee/muzeul-vasile-alecsandri-5/
7 Lucian Vasiliu, Ioana Coşereanu, Dan Jumară, The book of literary museums of Iasi, Ed, Terra
Design, Gura Humorului, 2006, p. 15.
8 Ibidem, p. 18.
9 http://www.muzeulliteraturiiiasi.ro/muzee/muzeul-mihai-codreanu-vila-sonet-j/
10 Mihai GeleleŃu, Ion Mihăescu, op. cit., pp. 36-37.
11 ***, Muzeul „Constantin Negruzzi”, Ed. Vasiliana, 1998, Iaşi, 2009, p. 2.