His dedication and passion for his work was rewarded after a 40 years career with the membership of Traditional Art Academy from Romania and “Carmen Saeculare” Cultural and Art Center.

His work can be admired in over 40 churches from all over the country where he sculpted chairs and iconostasis. The artisan is also a history passionate and he carved the gates from his house with famous historic faces like Burebista, Decebal, Traian, Stefan cel Mare and Mihai Viteazul.

Vasile Gaman museum, Neamt County

Another important aspect is his passion for folkloric art that he collected over the years. All these objects are exhibited in a museum house that he opened in 1988 and that has over 3000 items like old tools, books, manuscripts, religious icons, traditional costumes, masks, medals and coins. The objects present in the collection of Vasile Gaman illustrate the past life from Neamt County.

Vasile Gaman used his talent to create religious wood objects like chairs, iconostasis, chapels or objects used in the daily tasks in a traditional house. All his objects are decorated using religious and laic symbols.

You can find his museum in Lunca village, Vanatori-Neamt commune, Neamt County.

The visiting program of museums from Neamt County:
Tuesday – Sunday
09:00 – 17:00 (October – March)
10:00 – 18:00 (April – September)
Closed on Monday

1. The History and Archeology Museum from Piatra Neamt
Telephone: 0233-218108, 0233-217496
Adults (groups or single persons) – 4 RON
Children, students – 2 RON (groups and single persons)

2. The Cucuteni Museum from Piatra Neamt
Telephone: 0233-226471
Adults (groups or single persons) – 4 RON
Children, students – 2 RON (groups and single persons)

3. The Natural Science Museum from Piatra Neamt
Telephone: 0233-224211
Adults (groups or single persons) – 3 RON
Children, students – 2 RON (groups and single persons)

4. The Memorial House “Calistrat Hogas” from Piatra Neamt
Telephone: 0233-225997
Adults (groups or single persons) – 3 RON
Children, students – 2 RON (groups and single persons)

5. The Art Museum, the Ethnography Museum and the Royal Court Exhibition from Piatra Neamt are closed for restoration

6. The History Museum from Bicaz
Telephone: 0233-254201
Adults (groups or single persons) – 3 RON
Children, students – 2 RON (groups and single persons)

7. The History and Ethnography Museum from Targu Neamt is closed for reorganizing the main exhibition

8. The Memorial House “Veronica Micle” from Targu Neamt
Adults (groups or single persons) – 3 RON
Children, students – 2 RON (groups and single persons)

9. The Memorial House “Ion Creanga” from Targu Neamt
Telephone:0233-790620
Adults (groups or single persons) – 4 RON
Children, students – 2 RON (groups and single persons)

10. Neamt Stronghold
Telephone: 0733-981798
Adults (groups or single persons) – 5 RON
Children, students – 3 RON (groups and single persons)

11. The History Museum from Roman
Telephone: 0233-727726
Adults (groups or single persons) – 4 RON
Children, students – 2 RON (groups and single persons)

12. The Art Museum from Roman
Telephone: 0233-744011
Adults (groups or single persons) – 3 RON
Children, students – 2 RON (groups and single persons)

13. The Natural Science Museum from Roman is closed for relocation

Attention: for videos and photos there is a 10 RON fee!

Although at first the objects from the collection were exposed in a corner of a room and then on the hallway of the school, in time the number of objects grew so it was necessary that the collection to be exhibited in its own room. Here the tourist can admire treasures from the past of this community.

This museum is also the place where children and young people from Borca commune can witness traditions and customs of our ancestors, things that we should never forget.

The objects exposed in the museum are characteristic to this region. Among it you’ll see weaves, traditional clothing elements, traditional furniture pieces, clothes that people were at the daily jobs or at weddings, objects made out of wood used inside houses on a daily basis, ceramics and carpets.

The Ethnography Museum from Borca commune, Neamt County is a place where time stands still, where true values of Romanian people wait for us to visit and treasure.

In these museums you’ll have the chance of admiring paintings, graphic works, ornamental art, abstract art with geometrical shapes, sculptures and more. Visit the Art Museums from Neamt County and discover an impressive art collection.

The Art Museum from Piatra Neamt - represents a panoramic vision of the evolution of art (paintings, graphics, sculptures, tapestries) made by Romanian artists at the end of the XX century. In works of sculptors like Ion Irimescu and Ion Jalea, painters like Gh Petrascu, Fr Sirato, N Tonitza, Corneliu Baba we can see the period between the two World Wars – a period marked by the incidence of the European currents evolved in the XX century.

The Art Museum from Roman – was open for the public in 1957 and in the beginning had only one painting to exhibit. The painting was “Stefan the Great” and it was painted in 1884 by Epaminondra Bucevschi at the request of Melchisedec Stefanescu. The collection leverages the Romanian art created by artists near the town of Roman. Among the artists that have their works exposed in the museum we can list: Maria Ciurdea Steurer, Iosif Steurer, Stavru Tarasov, Jean Cosmovici, Constantin Isachie, Nicu Enea.

The Art Museum Iulia Halaucescu from Tarcau – Neamt County – was first opened in November 2003 in the village Tarcau, in the building where the old school was. The museum is formed by six rooms that host 120 art works and personal belongings of Iulia Halaucescu. All that can be seen in the museum was donated by the painter to her birth village Tarcau.

The Religious Collection from Agapia Monastery, Neamt County – 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.

And testimonies of all these historic remains can be seen only in the history museums from Neamt County. We encourage you to visit these touristic attractions and to participate in an imaginary voyage in the past of the first people from these places, to be the witness of the artistic creations and to improve your cultural and historic knowledge in the history museums from Neamt County.

The History and Ethnography Museum from Targu Neamt – Here we can find a summary of the medieval history of Targu Neamt as well of the handcrafts from the Neamt area. In the inner court of the museum you’ll see traditional machines for the processing of fruits, seeds, wood and wool.

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The Museum of History and Ethnography from Bicaz – was founded in 1958 and was created with the purpose of displaying historical objects from Bistrita Valley. The permanent exhibition of the museum is organized on three main spaces that illustrate the history from Bistrita Valley and also the 102 paintings donated to the town of Bicaz by the painter Iulia Halaucescu.

The History and Archeology Museum from Piatra Neamt – was founded in 1934 by the priest Constantin Matasa. The main exhibition of the museum is composed by objects that are from the National Thesaurus that represent the evolution of the human communities from this area starting with the Paleolithic period and ending in our time.

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The Museum for Neolithic Art Cucuteni – was inaugurated in the summer of 2005 and it’s the first museum for the Cucuteni Art from Romania. The museum is organized in its own building located across the street from the Architectural Complex “Curtea Domneasca” from Piatra Neamt and it displays over 300 pieces from the Cucuteni and Pre-cucuteni cultures – these objects are included in the category of “thesaurus object” for the national heritage.

The History Museum from Roman was inaugurated in 1957.The first exhibition was open for public in 1958 and it was organized from only 3 pieces. Today the collection numbers over 170,000 objects. The exhibition is permanent and it’s hosted in 15 rooms. The objects displayed here are from the era of the carved-stone and up until the First World War.

The museum displays cult objects made out of precious metal, embroideries, fabrics, wood sculptures all made by the monks from the monastery or that were received as gifts over time from different rules. All these objects contain important historical information about our past and our traditions.

Because of its wealth, Neamt Monastery was a target of many attacks. Despite the odds, the monastery survived and remained an important center of medieval culture that keeps in its museum an important part of our National Cultural Heritage.

The oldest manuscripts exhibited in the museum are dated to the time of ruler Alexandru cel Bun (1400 – 1432). The objects from the museum can be classified in more categories: manuscripts and printings, paintings, sculptures, religious objects made out of silver or silver covered with gold, clay objects, wood and metal engravings, robes and objects used in different religious services, covers for the Holly Vessels, bells and seals.

In the museum of Neamt Monastery you can also see the oldest art object of religious sculpture from Moldova: the iconostasis from the church from Neamt Stronghold, which has paintings dated to XV century. Here are some other valuable objects that you can see in the museum of Neamt Monastery: a filigree panaghiar from 1750 (panaghiar – is a holy vessel that holds a small icon that has the face of St Mary painted on it), a replica of the Holy Grail received as a gift in 1748 from the daughter of Tar Petru, the Slavonic Evangelic from 1759 that weights 35 kg, a Holy Cup from 1767, an epitrahil from 1470 and a box with Holy relics (the Head of St Simeon).

This entire collection of religious objects is just a small portion of what Neamt Monastery had and still represents an important place that illustrates the cultural and historical role that this monastery played over time.

Read more information about Neamt Monastery (history, attraction points, images, video and its hermitages).