THE CASTLE "IULIA HASDEU"
In 1893, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, "a very great genius", as Mircea Eliade called Him, after the suffering provoked by Julia's death, start to build at Campina a castle. Built using the design transmitted by Julia's Spirit, during the spiritist meetings, the small castle is conceived like a temple dedicated to his daugther's memory. It will be Hasdeu's refuge, the man of science will spend there the sadness of his last years, surrounded by the loneliness and by his contemporain's misunderstanding.
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The castle, finished in 1896, after Hasdeu's death, will constitute a subject of great talks between who suggested to give it to the Ministry of Public Education, having for end its change in a museum.
The building, who was requiring a lot of reparation, even when Hasdeu was in life, was affected by the first world war and in 1924 the People's Atheneum of Campimna "B.P.Hasdeu" tries to take it for restauration. The castle was affected again by the second world war and it keeps its state till 1955, when its name was written in the Listing of Historical Monuments.
Restored between 1962-1964, the castle will lodge from April, the 9th 1965, the Memorial Museum "B.P.Hasdeu", owing to Nicolae Simache, a teacher of history, who founded nearly all the museums of Prahova county.
After the earthquake in 1977, the castle enters in a long process of restoration. The rhytm of this process was hurried by the common efforts of the Commitee for the Culture of Prahova County, the Municipal Council of Campina, the History and Archaeology and the Foundation "Hasdeu". In this way, on June, the 17th 1994, the Memorial Museum "B.P.Hasdeu" was opened partially and on February, the 25th 1995 it's put at visitors disposal, although the restoration wasn't finished.
The visitors can admire the furniture, the things of the family, photos and original documents, manuscripts, Hasdeu's reviews, many pictures made by Nicolae Grigorescu, Sava Hentia, G.D. Mirea, Diogene Maillart.
Hasdeu's spiritist preoccupations occupy an important place in the ensemble of the exhibition.
