The museum was established in the house where Iosif Vulcan (1841 - 1907), Romanian publicist, culture animator, founding director of Familia magazine, lived. The museum underwent two major restorations, the first in 2000 and the second in 2015, offering the visiting public today a basic exhibition that includes exhibits arranged in four rooms: the showcases in the first room present life (childhood in Holod and Letea Mare, adolescence in Oradea , high school and law studies) and the work of Iosif Vulcan, insisting on his fundamental "foundation", the founding and editing, for 41 years, of the first series of Revista Familia. The other three rooms house Baroque, Eclectic, Biedermeie...r, Jugendstil or Rococo furniture belonging to the Vulcans: tables, armchairs, a banquette, a desk, paintings, mirrors, vases, family photos, vintage carpets, a secretary, a pendulum, planter, wall clock, as well as other objects. The fifth room is intended for the interwar series of the magazine Familia, but it is also used for the opening of some thematic exhibitions, having a temporary character. The collection of the "Iosif Vulcan" Memorial Museum contains a series of original documents and reproductions, issues from the five series of the magazine Familia founded by Iosif Vulcan - including the one with Mihai Eminescu's debut with the poem De-aş avea -, paintings and art objects.
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