Nicolae Iorga Memorial House (Casa Memorială „Nicolae Iorga”) is a museum in Botoșani dedicated to historian and politician Nicolae Iorga, who lived here with his mother and younger brother between 1876 and 1880. The small house preserves the setting of part of his childhood and contains a wider collection devoted to his later academic and public career.
After the death of Iorga’s father, his mother Zulnia supported Nicolae and his younger brother George while the family moved between several rented homes in Botoșani. For four years they lived here in rooms rented from Marghioala Vâzdogeasa, with the two boys sharing one room and their mother using another as both her bedroom and sitting room. Iorga remembered the house years later and returned to it during visits to Botoșani, recalling not only the interior but also the flower garden around the property.
The original 19th-century house was built from wattle and daub and had deteriorated badly by the middle of the 20th century. It was reconstructed in 1965, and later work restored features such as the shingled roof and wooden porch supports. A permanent memorial exhibition opened in 1971, marking the centenary of Iorga’s birth.
Two rooms recreate the domestic setting of the family’s years here. The room shared by Nicolae and George was arranged with reference to Iorga’s own recollections, while the adjoining room represents the space used by their mother. Furniture, books and family objects give the rooms a more personal character, including Zulnia Iorga’s coffee cup and manuscripts, a table clock that belonged to Nicolae Iorga, family portraits and an ornamental Viennese vessel inherited from his grandfather.
The remaining rooms broaden the exhibition beyond his childhood, following Iorga through his education, historical research, writing and public career. Photographs, school and university documents, manuscripts, correspondence, newspapers and magazines he edited, and first editions of his books trace the scale of his work, while later distinctions include honorary doctorates awarded by universities such as the Sorbonne, Cambridge and Rome.
