The History Museum

The basics of the local History museum from Galati were made in 1890 when the politician Vasile Alexandru Urechia took the initiative to establish the first library in the city of Galati and a museum; they were hosted in the halls of the "Vasile Alexandri" high school. A large part of the objects that have been in the first museum can be found today exposed at the Museum of History in Galati.

The history of the History Museum

23 years later by the opening of the first museum, Paul and Catherine Pasa started a new museum complex with mixed profile, which was located in one of the halls of the Boys School No. 6 from town; this time the museum contains many elements of the natural sciences and fewer with historical impact.
In 1937 he founded the Association "Cuza Voda House"; this association has managed to assemble funds, donations and contributions from authorities and bought the parents' home of Alexandru Ioan Cuza which was inaugurated as the Museum "Cuza Voda House". Today, this building is part of the History Museum Galati.
In time, the museum has suffered many changes; there have been bought or donated new building and added to the Museum Heritage. The surface on whic are exposed today many pieces, has grown from year to year because of the many demarches made in this sense and the collections were greatly enriched. For example, in 1956 the museum was divided into three branches: History Museum, The Natural Science Museum and The Art Museum, all subordinate today to the History Museum of Galati.
In time, the museum has suffered many changes; there have been bought or donated new building and added to the Museum Heritage. The surface on whic are exposed today many pieces, has grown from year to year because of the many demarches made in this sense and the collections were greatly enriched. For example, in 1956 the museum was divided into three branches: History Museum, The Natural Science Museum and The Art Museum, all subordinate today to the History Museum of Galati.
So the museum reached to take care of only two permanent exhibitions: the Manjina and the "Cuza Voda House". In a short time, to the museum was allocated a building, where is located today the headquarter, on the Maior Iancu Fotea nr. 2 streets. The building required major repairs that delayed the opening until 1988, year in which the thematic museum was founded on the didactic principles of general national history, the museum was well equipped, with exhibits coming from the spatial reference of the the Maritime Danube county.

In time, the museum experienced a great development, reaching today to have six sections as follows:
• The headquarters of the History Museum – Galati - Domneasca Street, No. 25. Opening hours are depending on season and depending on permanent exhibition or temprorar from here. Throughout the year it is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays and in winter the museum closes with an hour earlier, at 17.00.

• "Cuza Voda House" - Cuza Voda Street no. 80. The museum is arranged in Cuza Voda's parents' house and can be visited throughout the year (Monday and Tuesday closed). Note that in 2003 was refurbished an annex where it you can visit an exhibition of numismatic collections, documents, medals and contemporary pieces.

• Memorial House "Costache Hegra" - commune Costache Negri (Manjina), Galati County; well as the other departments, Mondays and Tuesdays is closed. The building is where Costache Negri, Nicolae Balcescu, Kogalniceanu, Alecsandri and Alexandru Ioan Cuza met to discuss the program of ideas of the revolution forty-eighters. The house was declared a historical monument in 1943, and 25 years later, in 1968 became the home of Memorial Costache Negri.

• Collections House located in the old building of Tinca Pharmacy - Eroilor Street, No 64, with the same program of visiting. The monument appears on the list of historical Monuments with code GL-II-mB-03045; in the past downstairs, was pharmacy and upstairs has been the home of Tinca Constantin - the pharmacist. This was, at a time, councilor, mayor and senator of Covurului. The year 2002 was decisive for this building. The building was transferred from the administration of the City Council to the Museum patrimony; with the approval of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, the Collections House, changed her destination, from historic monument in the Collections Museum.

• "Hortensia Papadat Bengescu" House from Ivesti, Galaţi - has been inaugurated on 20 July 2009 at 13.00. It can be visited throughout the year with the exception of Mondays and Tuesdays. Here can be seen the exhibition of the "Personalities from Ivesti" where you can see documentary materials, objects belonging to Hortensia Bengescu and to other important members of Ivesti culture.

• The Rural House of "Ion Avram Dunareanu" in Suhurlui commune, Galati county, was inaugurated on 10 October in 2009. The house was built by Andone and Maria Avram. In 2007, judge Ioan Avram Dunareanu, the son of Andone and Maria Avram, donated his parents home and an impressive collection of goods to the Ethnographic Museum. Exhibition here is called "The Ambient Peasant".


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