"Bogdan Petriceicu Haşdeu" Museum

Name:
"Bogdan Petriceicu Haşdeu" Museum
General profile:
Main profile:
Memorials
Collection(s):

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.


County:
Prahova
Locality:
Câmpina
Address:
Bulevardul Carol I nr. 199
Postal code:
105600
Time table:
Monday: closed
Tuesday - Sunday: 09:00 - 17:00
Phone :
0244.335.599; 0244.335.598
Fax:
0244.335.599
E-mail address:
Administrative subordination:
Câmpina City Council
Importance:
Local
Founded:
1965
Historic Monument Building: Clădire monument istoric
PH-II-m-A-16395
Museum code:
6960506
Director:
Stanciu Dragoş
Contact person:
Amalia Brebeanu
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