The museum was organized in the house, considered to be a historic monument, where the painter lived between 1855 and 1894, on the basis of the donation made by his successors. The collection comprises a rich heritage of paintings, graphics (compositions, portraits, drawings), mural paintings in a neo-Pompeian style, period furniture, personal belongings, and documents. On the first floor there is the artist workshop. There are on display great historical canvases, and the gallery of portraits that consecrated the artist in the conscience of his contemporaries. At the same time, there are sketches, pictures, precious books brought by the painter from Italy, two official bulletins from the ...Revolution of 1848, a sketch for the curtain of the National Theatre, and many exhibits evoking Tattarescu's activity of painter and pedagogue. The museum owns goods listed in the National Cultural Heritage Treasure.