To visit Ion Minulescu Memorial House from Bucharest you have to get to the address bulevardul profesor doctor Gheorghe Marinescu 19, apartament 12, interfon 12, opposite the Cotroceni Palace and near the Botanical Gardens. Waze and Google Maps will guide you to your destination. The Ion Minulescu Memorial House is in an apartment block, neighboring the one that houses the Liviu Rebreanu Memorial House. The museum is open daily from 9 am to 5 pm from November to February, and from 8 am to 4 pm during the rest of the months, except Mondays.
Ion Minulescu, symbolist poet and prose writer, lived between 1881 and 1944. He was born in Bucharest, grew up in Slatina and studied in Pitesti. He studied law in Paris, but had already begun to distinguish himself as a writer. He will also translate international poetry. He returned to the country where he later married the poet Claudia Millian, with whom he had a daughter, Mioara, who became a plastic artist.
During the First World War he takes refuge with his family in Iasi. In 1922, Ion Minulescu is appointed Director General of Arts. He had a rich writing career. His work consists of poetry and prose.
The "house" where the museum is organized is the former residence of the Minulescu family that they bought in 1934. It is an apartment block in a green area of Bucharest. After Minulescu's death, the property was inherited by his daughter, Mioara Laurentia Minulescu, who left it in 1991 by will to the National Museum of Romanian Literature with all the patrimony found in it.
The museum is very rich in literary documents, letters, manuscripts, unpublished photographs and impresses by the collection of paintings and sculptures, which were worn by the "well-read" people of the time. There are works by artists Alexandru Ciucurencu, Margareta Sterian, Henri Catargi, Iosif Iser, Victor Brauner, Camil Ressu, Lucian Grigorescu, Cecilia Cuțescu Storck, Maxy, Satmari, Oscar Han. The poet's wife, Claudia Millian, was also an artist and realized some of the works seen here.
The first information we receive in the entrance hall where we also pay the entrance tickets.
We then move on to living. Here the space is "magnified" by a crystal mirror. The furniture is simply upholstered in red. As in the neighboring apartment, the unexpected plus for me when visiting this museum is the abundance of paintings and sculptures. A multi-lighted chandelier enhances the feeling of space in this room.
portraits of the poet
painting in the living room
paintings and sculptures
Ion Minulescu had a daughter. One of the rooms we visit is daughter's room. Here I liked the trinkets and sculptures, many, but smaller than in the rest of the house. Taboos also abound here on all the walls and I noticed a portrait of the writer.
paintings
daughter's room
Wife's room is adorned with icons, including several painted on glass. There are also several small paintings framed with portraits.
wife's room
icons
Icons in Claudia Millian's room
Dining room is impressive. Here we find a display case with personal belongings including wedding rings and, due to the more generous space of the room, large framed paintings this time. On a large piece of furniture a few other souvenirs or books were displayed for sale. In the middle of the room, as was the practice in those days, was a large table with chairs. The room was lit by a chandelier.
Dining room
painting in the living room
large paintings
Mihai Eminescu
In my opinion the most beautiful room I visited here was office. It has an exit on the balcony overlooking the neighboring villa belonging to Prince Nicolae where he liked to go out to the challenges of his daughters to recite verses for them because the writer liked to be very much in love. This little story recalls the bohemian air that Ion Minulescu breathed. There were several bookcases in the study. I found out that the writer didn't do well at school, in fact he'd flunked his French and Romanian. Paradox had it that he was honored in France for his contribution to French literature. A Minulescu's large portmanteau further encloses this workspace, where the writer also had a sofa where he could rest.
portrait Ion Minulescu
library
Ion Minulescu Memorial House and Claudia Millian is a muezu interesesant. A proof of this and for us, a great joy, was that Denisa, our daughter, did not get bored during the visits to Rebreanu and Minulescu, and even participated in the presentation of the lady guide with questions and comments.
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