Muzeul Vasile Parvan

The museum was established by the elite of the Barlad intellectuals on April 10, 1914, in the desire to collect cultural goods in a specialized institution that would hoard and exploit them for the general public.

Among them, Professor Stroe Belloescu, who from his personal fortune built a building in 1909, was the seat of the first public library and the first museum. The materialization of the initiators' desire has been a series of stages, a way to start, to search, to overcome and overcome the difficulties, to which the contribution of a series of specialists, whose work, done with dedication, passion and loyalty , was put at the service of national cultural heritage values.

The Museum, as a patrimony, began with the collection of different collections as domains, thus laying the foundations of a mixed museum, as the vast majority of the museums in the country, having today the sections: Archeology-History, Art, Natural Sciences and Barlad personalities. From the point of view of origin, the patrimony, divided into four sections of the museum, has been enriched during the existence of the museum through research, transfers, acquisitions and donations.

The museum, in its 90s, has received many donations from great personalities, known as passionate collectors, true mecena who have donated their collected collections in a lifetime of man, with much science, money, time and a lot of passion, without any pecuniary clause.

We only remind professor dr. Ion Chiricuta (1917-1988) and Dr. Marcel Vainfeld (1917-1990), both sons of the city, whose donations for the first time enriched the heritage of the museum with universal art.

At present, the museum offers to the large public permanent exhibitions, various in thematical aspect, namely: six collections entered as donations composed of Romanian folk art, European fine art and oriental art, numismatics, medals, weapons, icons, heritage card, all organized as a museum of collections; separated in another building an exhibition of contemporary Romanian art, in another building, the exhibitions: BULTURE CULTURAL, sec. XIX-XX, CUZA AND EPOCA SA, NUMISMATIC CABINET from the sec. 4 BC to this day; Flora, Fauna and Lithology in Podişul Bârladului and a museum of author, with the creation of the sculptor Marcel Guguianu, coming from the donation made by this son of Barlad.