The collection of religious objects from Secu Monastery was also appreciated by historian Nicolae Iorga that describes it like “the great wonder of Secu”. Here are some of the valuable objects displayed in the monastery’s museum:

“The Air” (“The holy Epitaph”) that was a gift received by the monastery in 1608. On the red velvet background you see the scene “Crying for Jesus”, worked in gold thread and framed by a Slavonic inscription.

You can also see a series of Gospel Books among which there is a manuscript in Slavic that dates from XIV – XV centuries. A true masterpiece of religious and artistic importance is the Gospel printed in 1821, when the abbot of Secu Monastery was Ilarie. This Gospel was printed at Neamt Monastery and has frames with faces of saints painted on all the pages by the monk Ghervasie from Neamt. Another important gospel is the Holy Gospel printed in 1763 at Moscow, in the Slavic language. This gospel has silver covers and was donated to the monastery by Ecaterina the 2nd, tar of Russia.

In the year 1842, Safta Brancoveanu donates to Secu Monastery two chests made out of silver covered in gold and each with 5 towers covered in brilliants.

Together with these special pieces you can also see: two crosses from 1592 and 1607 covered with silver, two censer made out of silver covered with gold from XVII century, two big silver candlesticks from 1602 and so on.

Over time Secu Monastery played an important role in promoting the local culture and the religious life from Neamt County and basically from all over Romania.

The Religious Collection from Varatec Monastery hosts some of the oldest wood painted icons, from XV century that pictures St Nicolae or Archangels Mihail and Gavril brought from Rasca Monastery – Falticeni. From XVI century there is an icon with St Maria with Jesus, brought from Valeni, painted on wood in the byzantine style. You can also see a series of small icons from XVII century and the icon “Maica Domnului Dolorosa” (“Mother of God Dolorosa”) painted by Eftimie. From Topolita Hermitage there some icons with Jesus and St Maria painted by ieromonahul Tiufan (ieromonah is a religious title that refers to a monk that is also a priest) in 1697.

Truly impressive are also other icons of St Maria and Jesus that are present in the religious collection from Varatec Monastery and that dates from 1661, 1179 and 1859. The icon from 1859 was painted by Nicolae Grigorescu and displays St Maria with baby Jesus together with angels.

The museum is impressive with its multitude of religious objects: wooden sculpted crosses, discs, chalices, candlesticks and more. One of the most important items is Evanghelia (The Gospel) printed in 1821 by Veniamin Costache at Neamt Monastery and the Greek Evangheliar printed in Venice in 1811.

Come visit the museum from Varatec Monastery, in Neamt County and enjoy a journey into our history and witness the beauty of handmade objects like crosses, icons or carpets.

In the first room you’ll see old icons from XVI and XVIII centuries, a collection of old crosses, manuscripts, old printings, a panaghiar (panaghiar is a vessel made out of silver or gold that holds an icon of St Mary), shrines, candles and other objects of historic and religious importance.

The second room of the museum is dedicated to the great painter Nicolae Grigorescu. In this room you’ll see 29 original works of the painter made in the period while he was painting the church from Agapia Monastery. The objects are represented by 5 paintings, icons, procession prapur and an epitaph.
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Room number three from the Agapia religious museum hosts objects like: embroideries, coverings for the Holy Vessels, a bedernita (bedernita is a religious clothing that covers the shoulders of a high priest that displays The Resurrection Scene ), embroidered icons, a curtain for the icon of St Mary, an epitaph, silver objects, sacred vessels, crosses and candles.

The forth room is the writers room where are exhibited painting and images with the houses where these writers lived. These writers are the ones that described in their works Agapia Monastery and what this religious settlement meant to them.

The religious collection from Agapia Monastery has a great religious and historical value and along with the paintings made by Nicolae Grigorescu inside the church of the monastery offers a good reason to visit this monastery from Neamt County.

This museum is located in the school building from the village Telec. The collection was put together by professor Barna Augustin Marcian and his wife Elena Barna. The objects represent an image of the customs and traditions from the Bicaz valley.

Among the objects exposed in the museum we can see textile designated for interior decoration, folk costumes and different objects used by locals to perform different tasks around the house. We can also see traditional masks used in winter traditions: the most common costume is “the goat”. This costume is made from a carpet with different ornaments placed on top of it: small mirrors, braids and long strings of beads.

You can also see some of the basic forms of a traditional house from a mountain-village and a sheepfold formed by two rooms: one is where the cheese was made and another one is where the cauldron with mamamliga was. All the objects presented here, in this museum, represent the heritage of customs and traditions from this area that we have the obligation to at least remember it.

The Museum from the commune Vanatori – Neamt County was organized in the building where there was the old school from the village. The collection of objects was put together by Professor C. Bordeianu: ethnography materials, folk art, prints and archeological objects.

The objects presented in the museum represent a glimpse of the past, evidence of our cultural and historical heritage. The folk costumes, the traditional masks, objects made manually, archeological pieces, all of these represent a thesaurus of great value.

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Contact person: Professor Ancuta Ion

Short description

Constantin Romanescu was a teacher and for 36 years he was also the principle of the school from the village Dreptu. He was a very important figure for the community of the village Dreptu, he was the friend of the great writer Mihail Sadoveanu but he also was a collector. Because of his constant activity, the people from the village Dreptu have a zoological museum of their own.

This museum, known as the Zoological Museum C Romanescu is the result of a lifetime work. The museum was built with passion and it contains many species from the surrounding fauna. All the animals and birds presented in the museum are well preserved.