The museum is hosted in a house built before World War II and donated by the owner Plasei Ianca, and later given to the museum. The founder of this museum is Professor Ion M. Barbuceanu, and currently the museum is run by the "Museum" Cultural - Historical Association (President - Professor Ionel Cândea, Ph.D.), in partnership with the Ianca Town Hall (the local council). The museum is developing into three directions: illustrating the local folk culture and the passing from village to town in the area of the settlement of Ianca; gathering and valorizing the testimonies of the activity of the former Ianca aerodrome and its public servants; an art department based on the donati...on from Georgeta Crainic, born in the town, conducting artistic activity in Canada. The museum has an art collection comprising 25 paintings of artist Georgeta Crainic; a collection of the military history of the aviation, displaying: military uniforms and tokens, certificates and decorations, a catapult chair, a sword, etc; an ethnographic collection including: a 1951 cart, a weaving loom, pottery, fabrics and tools, as well as a local history collection with property papers, decorations, medals, interwar period photographs, a cadastral plan of the former commune of Ianca from the end of the 19th century, etc.
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