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state hymn, of the publicist Iacob Mureşianu (1812 - 1887), of his son Aurel Mureşianu
(1847 - 1909), journalist and publicist, his father successor at the leadership of
„Transylvania Gazette”, and the composer Iacob Mureşianu junior 15 .
Stefan Baciu Memorial House from Braşov was inaugurated in the year of 2006, thanks
to the donation made by the Baciu family for opening a memorial museum dedicated to
the personality of the great man of culture from Brasov. The memorial house exposes
Biedermeier furniture pieces, art works, objects, books (over 3.600) and an archive
counting 5.800 documents, belonging to Baciu family: prof. Ioan Baciu – the father,
Elisabeta Baciu – the mother, Ioana Baciu Mărgineanu – the sister, Ovidiu Mărgineanu –
brother-in-law, Ştefan Baciu - poet and Mira Simian Baciu - professor.
In Alba County another representative museum for this kind of institutions can be
found: Lucian Blaga Memorial House is situated in the town Lancrăm. The house has
been built in the 1870’s by the priest Simion Blaga, the grandfather of the poet Lucian
Blaga. The collection presents pieces of furniture which belonged to Blaga’s family;
personal objects of the poet, manuscripts, princeps editions, photos and a local
ethnographic collection, consisting in icons, textiles and ceramics. 16 .
In Cluj County, town Ciucea, there is organised Octavian Goga Memorial Museum
(Fig. 6). The museal complex includes the castle which became a memorial museum. The
House of Ady Endre, the building in peasant style, known under the name of the whit
living-room, a small church brought by Goga from Galpaia village (Sălaj County) and the
mausoleum. First of the two rooms of the museum is the library, which contains over
9.000 volumes, together with a Moorish cedar wood chest (from the 16-th Century), a
work table, a couch and some chairs. From the library you can get into the office, where
are exposed some family photos, some sketches made by Nicolae Grigorescu, candles in
Brâncoveanu’s style (17-th – 18-th Centuries), belts (girdles) with inlays of precious
stones from India, Syria, Turkey, a small table with the deck from ceramic tile original
from Persia (16-th Century), a Byzantine icon from the 11-th Century. All over the
museum, there can be found various art works, objects made of bronze, from Pompei an
French arras from the 16-th Century, paintings signed by Theodor Pallady and Nicolae
Dărăscu, a chest which was owned by Avram Iancu. Along these, there can be met
correspondence and manuscripts belonging to the poet, publicist and man of politics
Octavian Goga (1881 - 1938). For the remembering of the Hungarian poet Ady Endre,
friend of Goga, there was arranged, at Ciucea, the building in which he lived time for four
moths. It includes an interior specific from Romania and another one in the Hungarian
style 17 .
In Lupeni, Harghita County, can be found Tamási Áron Memorial House (Fig. 7),
which was inaugurated in 24-th of September 1972. It’s his parents’ house, built 150
years ago, and from wood carved with a roof from shingle. In this house was born Tamási
Áron in 19 september 1897. The exhibition consists in his personal objects, manuscripts,
works, letters, and photos of the artist.
15 http://ghidulmuzeelor.cimec.ro/id.asp?k=159
16 http://ghidulmuzeelor.cimec.ro/id.asp?k=750
17 Mihai GeleleŃu, Ion Mihăescu, op. cit., pp. 89-94.