The Village Museum

	Adress:	28, Kiseleff Road, Bucharest		Turea Church (18th century, Cluj country, Transilvania)
	Telefon:	617.17.32, 617.59.29
	Fax:	317.90.68
	Program:	Monday:	9-17
		Tuesday-Sunday:	9-17 (oct-may)
			9-20 (may-oct.)
	Web address:	www.muzeul-satului.ro

The Village Museum, lying in a specific romanian setting, on the Herãstrãu lake shore in Bucharest, is one of the biggest and the oldest outdoors museum in Europe. Its exibits - genuinemonuments including houses, pens, churches, water and wind mills, cloth mills, of great historic and artistic value - acquaint the visitors in two hours with the specific of the Romanian village. The objects inside the households - carpets, pottery, rugs, icons, furniture - point to the originality of the folk creation, the sensibility and care for the beauty of the rural people.

The Village Museum (overview, click for details)
Fountain (19th century, Vâlcea country, Oltenia)	House from Dumitra (19th century, Alba country, Transilvania)	House from Ceauru (19th century, Gorj country, Oltenia)
House from Chiojdu Mic (19th century, Buzãu country, Muntenia)	Wind Mill from Valea Nucarilor (19th century, Tulcea country, Dobrogea)	Mud house from Rãpciuni (19th, Neamt country, Moldova)

Last update: 2004, January 14
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