Organised in partnership with the Free Trade Union in Pre-University Education (USLIP) Iaşi, the Museum of Childhood under Communism includes a permanent exhibition divided into two sections: one recreates the atmosphere of a classroom specific to the communist period, and the other is dedicated to the atmosphere in the home of a child of those times, in which we can find various everyday and familiar objects. Romanian communism meant, apart from so many dramatic things that “big history” records, a daily attempt to create the “new man” from the first moments of each individual’s existence. This museum aims to record, through a number of exhibits from that ...period, precisely this “little history”. The permanent exhibition is the result of the effort made by the Iaşi National Museum of Romanian Literature to bring together and showcase exhibits from that era. Over the years various temporary exhibitions on this topic have been organised: “The Childhood of our Parents” and “The Museum of Daily Life in Communism” (2014), “Propaganda Matters 1.0” (2016). The concept and arrangement of the classroom belong to USLIP Iaşi, and the room dedicated to objects familiar to childhood in communism is based on exhibits donated by USLIP Iaşi, by the “Heritage for the Community” Association and by the Association for Cultural Hospitality.
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