The memorial museum ION CREANGĂ

Ion Creanga Street number 72 – Targul Neamt, Humulesti
   
   Humulesti is nowadays a ward of Targu Neamt city of what used to be a village. But not just a simple village, the birthplace and childhood cradle of this wonder-child who was Nică of Ştefan a Petrii Ciubotariul, born into a diligent peasant home in 1839 with a lot of children, that finally managed to become a famous writer all over the world owing to his special gift of narrating his eventful childhood.
   
   Things to remember
   
   Through a little chamber we get into the single capacious room where we can recognize the “loaming chimney of the fireplace”, behind which the wanton Nică hide himself and on which a part of the kids slept on. We can also recognize the bed and the trousseau table of Smaralda, the chair of the old man Chiorpec Ciobotariul, the parent’s clothes and a bittern.
   Through the windows you can catch a glimpse of some valuable things that are worthy to be remembered like the breviary that helped Nică in his studies, the primer books received from professor Iordache and a lot of other creations of this foolish and distraught child, published in different editions and languages, photocopies of his manuscripts, family pictures and household objects.
   
   The muzzle with eyes
   
   In “Childhood Memories” Ion Creangă identified himself through a famous phrase in which the humor, self irony, the wisecrack and the popular sayings are combined: “Finally, why such a big talk for nothing? I’ve been also in this world a muzzle with eyes, a piece of loam from Humulesti, not beautiful till the age of 20, neither obedient till the age of 30, neither wealthy till the age of 40. But I’ve never been as poor as this year, the past year and whole my life.”