“Veronica Micle” Memorial House

Having a porch and three rooms, the “Veronica Micle” Memorial House is distinguished by its simplicity and authenticity of style. Built in the first half of the XIX century, completely from wood and bricks, the house was offered to Veronica Micle by her parents as dowry and heritage.

Three years before her death, in 1886, the house was donated to the Văratec Monastery. Currently, the house is situated in the old city center, across the Tîrgu Neamţ City Hospital. Afterwards, the house was owned by several householders, and then, from the initiative of the protopope Consatantin Matasă from Piatra Neamţ, the edifice was declared a historical monument. From 1982, the house was managed by the Neamţ County Museum Complex.

The house was refurbished after the original plan and set up as a memorial museum in 1984, under the name “Veronica Micle” Memorial House. In the year of 1998, in front of the house, a bust of the female poet was placed, made in bronze by the Romanian sculptor Popa Damian-Ioan.

The memorial house represents a precious historical proof of the past century, which blends the images of the old settlement with the living memory of the woman who, through love and sufferings, wrote her name forever next to that of the great Romanian poet, Mihai Eminescu.

Within the memorial house visitors will discover the personality of Veronica Micle in the photocopies, manuscripts, books and personal items which belonged to the poet.

In one of the rooms there is the place where Veronica Micle wrote some of her poems, maxims and letters to Mihai Eminescu. Some of the poems between the two lovers were recovered after one hundred years and published in the volume Dulcea mea Doamnă, Eminul meu iubit.

The museum characteristic of the rooms is completed by the big crystal mirror of the writer, the case used in trips around the country and abroad, a book support made of massive silver, a Viennese small table, hunting binoculars, a table clock, and also a copy of the mortuary mask of Eminescu.

During her life, Veronica Micle often came to live in this house. It seems she loved this place. Towards the end of her life, she retreated to live at the Văratec Monastery, and in 1886 she donated the house to the monastery.