Gala Galaction, the literary pseudonim of Grigore Pisculescu, was born on April 16, 1879, in Teleorman county , Didesti village. He was a Romanian writer, orthodox priest, professor of theology, and translator of the Bible in the Romanian language. He died on March 8, 1961 in Bucharest.
The Memorial House Gala Galaction is located in a neighborhood of the norh of Bucharest on a street that now bears the name of the writer.
The house that today hosts the museum that reminds us of Gala Galaction was built in 1912 and today we can call it a museum thanks to Ms. Elena Galaction - Stanciulescu, he's daughter, who donated the building and heritage on May 28, 1993.
Inside the museum we can find several manuscripts, articles wrote by Gala Galaction and the most important exhibit, The Bible, translated with a dedication to one his daughter, Elena Galaction - Stanciulescu.
The walls are covered with the paintings created by Luky Galaction, a paintress that exposed her work in Romania, also in Italy, country where she spent most of her life.
