The History and Archeology Museum from Piatra Neamtwas founded in 1934 by the priest Constantin Matasa. The main exhibition of the museum is composed by objects that are from the National Thesaurus that represent the evolution of the human communities from this area starting with the Paleolithic period and ending in our time.
The Museum for Neolithic Art Cucuteniwas inaugurated in the summer of 2005 and it’s the first museum for the Cucuteni Art from Romania. The museum is organized in its own building located across the street from the Architectural Complex “Curtea Domneasca” from Piatra Neamt and it displays over 300 pieces from the Cucuteni and Pre-cucuteni cultures – these objects are included in the category of “thesaurus object” for the national heritage.
The Natural Science Museum from Piatra Neamtwas first opened for public in 1960 and the permanent exhibition is organized as a monographic presentation of Neamt County from different points. Today, the museum has approximately 40000 pieces in its collection of fauna and 10000 pieces that represent the flora from this area. You can also see a unique collection of fossilized fishes.
The Art Museum from Piatra Neamtrepresents a panoramic vision of the evolution of art (paintings, graphics, sculptures, tapestries) made by Romanian artists at the end of the XX century. In works of sculptors like Ion Irimescu and Ion Jalea, painters like Gh Petrascu, Fr Sirato, N Tonitza, Corneliu Baba we can see the period between the two World Wars – a period marked by the incidence of the European currents evolved in the XX century.
