Casa memoriala Ion Creanga din Humulesti Traditional Cache

Ion Creanga memorial house in Humulesti is the house where the famous Romanian writer was born and where he spent his childhood. The house were Nica (nick name of Ion Creanga when he was a small boy), the son of Stefan a Petrei was born was built in 1830 by Petre Ciubotariu – the grandfather of the storyteller. Up until 1951 the house remained a heritage of the family: something passed from a generation to another. Zahei Grigoriu was the one that donated the house to become a museum.

The interior of the house is formed by two simple rooms that express the common sense and the modesty of the people that lived there. Here we can find the oven and the pillar of the chimney where we can still find the piece of rope where the cats used to play all day long – this is one of the stories depicted in the greatest book of Ion Creanga, called “Memories of my childhood”. Here, in the house, we can see a sculpture of Ion Creanga, the book of prayers that is mentioned in his book, 14 works of art made by Eugen Taru, used on the 1959 edition of “Memories of my childhood”.