Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum
Open-air museum by Herastrau lake with houses, churches and mills from across Romania.
The museum was opened on 10 May 1936 on the shore of Herastrau lake, the result of field campaigns run by the sociologist Dimitrie Gusti and the Bucharest Sociological School. Teams surveyed villages across the country, then dismantled selected buildings and re-erected them on the site with their furnishings, tools and outbuildings. The layout was worked out with the writer Victor Ion Popa and the sociologist Henri H. Stahl. The museum now covers about fourteen hectares within King Michael I Park.
More than three hundred structures are displayed, arranged by region: dwellings from Maramures, Oltenia, Dobrogea and Transylvania, wooden churches, watermills and windmills, wells, workshops and a half-buried house from the Danube plain. Interiors are furnished with textiles, ceramics and painted icons. Alongside the open-air collection the museum keeps indoor exhibition halls, a gallery and a research archive, and runs craft demonstrations, fairs and workshops through the year.
Highlights
- More than three hundred re-erected rural buildings
- Wooden churches, watermills and windmills
- Furnished interiors with textiles, ceramics and icons
- Craft demonstrations, fairs and family workshops
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