The article is devoted to the person of Tetyana Popa, known in the museum community of the republic as the organizer of a private museum in the village of Palanka of the Kalaras district. Returning and renovating her parents’ house, which was confiscated during the repressions, in the early 2000s, she created a museum of folk art “Casa părăntească”, where she lovingly collected a unique collection of artefacts, as well as artistic content, which in the complex, they illustrate almost all directions of folk creativity and traditional household culture of local residents.