"Iulian Antonescu" Museum Complex

The museum, established in 1957, had three departments since 1959: history, natural sciences and art. In 1960, the museum moved into a monumental building at the entrance to the Liberty Park, which was demolished after ten years. In the current new building, there are on display archaeological artefacts: Paleolithic material (from Buda, Lespezi), Neolithic ones and from the Bronze Age, Hallstatt finds (the weapons and ornaments deposit from the cemetery of Gioseni), mediaeval finds from the Princely Court in Bacău; numismatics: Dacian, Roman, and Byzantine coin hoards; local history: documents, jewels (dating from the 17th - 18th centuries), cups belonging to the Princes Mihail Sturdza ...and Al. I. Cuza, documents on the Independence War of 1877 and World War I (uniforms, orders, medals). The Ethnography Department presents collections representative for the ethnographic areas of the Central Moldavian Plateau, Trotuş and Bacău: fabrics, rugs, folk costumes, domestic artifacts. The museum also shelters documents on the history of literature, as well as a library of 9,000 volumes.

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