The Village Museum

Description:

Created in 1936 by Professor Dimitrie Gusti's endeavour (1880-1955), founder of the Romanian school of sociology, the Village Museum is one of the first ethnographic museums in the world and the second open-air ethnographic museum in the world after the one in Stockholm. Aiming to provide a detailed image of peasants' life, their spirit of inventiveness, their outstanding artistic sense, the museum attempts to reconstruct, in a naturally generous area, the intimate atmosphere of each house succeeds in doing that by placing, around each household, barns, stables and other outbuildings, fences made of wood, twigs or bricks, modest or impressive gates, interiors with specific furniture, work tools, dishes, rugs and other fabrics, etc..

 

Address: Sos. Kiseleff. 28-30, sector 1, postal code 011347, Bucharest

 

Located in a wonderful green area on the Herastrau Lake the museum brings together approximately 300 units (houses, annexes, workshops, churches). From Moldova 10 households were brought including: Straja House (dating from 1760) and House of Fundu Moldova with a turret and a wide porch. As far as Drobogea households are concerned, the Ostrov house draws the public attention with the  porch supported by pillars beautifully decorated, a household typical from Lipoveni (1898) of Jurilovca. Wallachian folk architecture is illustrated, among other things, by the beautiful house on the Chiojdu, built of boulders and having a turret with carved pillars and the railing of sawed boards.

From Oltenia two archaic houses were brought (the small houses from Draghiceni and Castranova), but together with other households in this part of the country Curtisoara house might be interesting (XIX century). Transylvania offers us a variety of buildings: Salciua (Country Moti) house, with huge straw roofs, a modest house of twigs glued with clay taken from Dumitra, Dragus house with an exterior extremely rich in ornaments (towels, enamelled ceramics etc.). The technical installations located in the museum one can admire the windmill from Dobrogea, the pottery from Horezu, whirlpools driven by water, etc..

 

Exhibition schedule:

Monday: 9:00 - 17:00

 

Exhibition hall "George Focsa"

Monday, Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday - Sunday: 11:00 - 19:00

 

Entry fee permanent exhibition:

Adults - 6 Ron (1.5 Euro)

Pensioners and cardholders Euro 26 to 3 Ron (1 Euro)

Children and youth - 1.5 (~ 0.5 Euro)