The exhibits include documents on the history of culture: family photographs, documents, manuscripts, furniture and personal belongings of the scholar's and his daughter’s Iulia (about 300 exhibits); rare books, pictures of Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu and Iulia Hasdeu; B. P. Hasdeu's archives; his designs for his daughter's Castle. The first editions of the works of Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838 - 1907) and of Iulia Hasdeu (1869 - 1888). The museum was inaugurated on the 2nd of July 1897. It opened to the public during Hasdeu's lifetime. After his death, the attempts by his heirs to determine the authorities to open a museum, in order to meet Hasdeu's will instructions, failed. It has b...een freely visited after World War I. It was endowed with personnel in 1932 and abandoned in 1947. It reopened as a museum in 1982, following G. Călinescu's intervention in Parliament. Nicolae Simache, the content being coordinated by D. Perpessicius, organized it. The building is a monument of architecture, built between 1894 and 1897. The architect was the writer himself. Restorations from 1962 - 1965, 1980 and after 1990.