Things to do in Northeast Romania, Northeast Romania: The Best Specialty Museums

Starting with the sommer of 1993 the artist Lucia Condrea opened in Moldovita (Bukovina, Suceava- Romania) a museum that bears her name, unique in Romania and maybe in the world, having in mind the artistical value of the exhibits. The museum contains over 5500 exhibits, artistically disposed on the area of the two levels of the building in 56 display cases.

This venue has begun as a family idea of preserving the traditional values. Over the time Dionizie and Felicia Olenici managed to collect various traditional items which were part of the traditional household belongings. Nowadays it is a private collection of traditional costumes which displays also a traditional reconstructed house and a small private planetarium catered by Dimitrie Olenici. The ethnography collection “Dionizie and Felicia Olenici” began to be organised from the year 2000. It includes over 500 objects from the surrounding places of Horodnic de Jos village. In the collection there are a few items also from the neighbouring villages: Bădeuți, Brodina, Comanesti, etc. The collection of ethnography is carried out in parallel with the planetarium and the astronomical observatory private arranged by prof. Dimitrie Olenici, who also uses to host an astronomical event during the summer.

The only museum in the country dedicated to this great man of culture was built in year 1885. Opened since year 1969, the memorial museum Calistrat Hogaș impresses with the simplicity and rustic beauty characteristic to this mountain area.

In year 1930 it has began the construction of Precista Curch from Piatra-Neamt and in year 1947 this was holy by Moldova's and Suceava's Metropolitan, Irineu Mihalcescu and by P.S. Iustinian, later Patriarch of Romanian Orthodox Church. At holy service also was priest Constantin Matasa, the one that animated the beginning and the end of this Holy Church.