Neamt County is a place of legend, history and culture with a rare beauty that overwhelms every visitor. It’s just what happened with the writer Mihail Sadoveanu that spent his last years in a house near Neamt Monastery.
He knew this place from 1920 when a friend became a monk at Vovidenia Hermitage. About the life of this monk Sadoveanu talks in his book The Demon of Youth, written in 1928 while he was at Vovidenia. Sadoveanu was fascinated of this place, of the forests that surrounded Vovidenia and he said …

If you decide to spend the winter holidays in Neamt County, beside the entertainment facilities you can also visit touristic attractions from Neamt County Museums Complex. When you don’t want to feel the cold of the winter you can take a quiet walk between cultural and art objects in these museums.
The museums are open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday, from 09:00 to 17:00 and the permanent exhibitions have over 300000 pieces to display. The museums from Neamt County offer to tourists a wide variety of collections: historic, cultural, …

Neamt County offers to art lovers the possibility to admire the art collections of three museums that contain works that depict landscapes, portraits and other artistic compositions. Nicolae Grigorescu, Tonitza and Iulia Halaucescu are just three of the great painters that are exposed in these collections.
In the Art Museum from Roman tourists will see the quality of drawings that express characters and different states of mind in portraits of the artist Maria Ciurdea, in paintings of Constantin Isachie or in the landscapes of Nicu Ene. The calm of the rural …

The museums from Piatra Neamt offer to tourists some interesting collections that represent testimonies of our past and our heritage. These collections contain cultural pieces with historic, archeological, documentary, technical and scientific value.
The Collection from the Neolithic Art Cucuteni Museum is the most important Neolithic collection from the south east of Europe. The museum exhibits tridimensional objects as well photographic materials. The painted ceramics from the cucuteni period is one of the most beautiful manifestations of art in the Neolithic period.
The Collection from the History and Archeology Museum from Piatra …

Neamt Monastery museum – 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 Religious …

In Madei village from Borca commune was recently opened and Ethnographic Museum called “Stramosii”(The Ancestors) – a place dedicated to old traditions from Bistrita Valley. The exhibition of the museum is a testimony of the respect of the young generation to their parents and grandparents. Here, visitors can admire fabrics that used to decorate the interior of a traditional house, the folkloric traditional costume, objects made by local artisans that were used in daily jobs around the house or different celebrations or customs.
The museum was organized at the initiative of …