| Collection(s) | In 1971 at Slobozia the ethnography department of the Ialomiţa County Museum was established, which at first housed ethnographic exhibitions illustrating different aspects of rural life in the Romanian Plain.
Slobozia became the administrative location of the Ialomiţa County Museum with two departments: the ethnography department based at Slobozia and the archaeology department based at Călăraşi. In 1981 the Ialomiţa and Călăraşi counties emerged. Thus, the Călăraşi based archaeology department became the Călăraşi County Museum, today called the Museum of the Lower Danube. The Ialomiţa County Museum emerged then from the Slobozia based ethnography department. The exhibition and scientific profile of the museum encompasses many disciplines: archaeology, history, ethnography, culture, religion. The county museum is divided into three departments located in various places. The temporary exhibitions hall, located on the premises of the "Ionel Perlea" Cultural Centre, currently houses a pottery and Romanian rugs exhibition from the collections of the Ialomiţa County Museum. At Ograda, a village situated on the Bucharest-Constanţa highway, in 1987, The "Ionel Perlea" Memorial House opened in the building that belonged to the great conductor and composer. On the 20th of October 1996 the "Maia-Catargi Religious Art and Culture Establishment" opened in the village of Maia-Catargi, commune of Brazi, where the exhibits include religious artefacts, icons and religious books, gathered by the vicar Alexandru Marinescu.
The main building of the museum shelters archaeology collections: local history collections, Neolithic archaeological vestiges of the Boian and Gumelniţa cultures, Geto-Dacian ones from the 4th century AD, Dridu culture items, mediaeval items, as well as ethnographic objects illustrating the Ialomiţa culture, its trades, coins uncovered at Oraşul de Floci and from the stray finds in the county, as well as an art collection. The museum heritage comprises 20,000 pieces.
The museum owns goods listed in the National Cultural Heritage Treasure. |
