Add a review about the National Museum of the village. Dmitry Gusti

In the very center of the Romanian capital there is a place where you forget for a while that you are in the heart of the modern European metropolis . This is the National Village Museum, more like a nature reserve than a traditional museum . It is located in the green quarter of Bucharest, surrounded by century-old trees, right on the shore of the picturesque Lake Herestrau . Actually, this goal was pursued by the organizers of the museum: to create the environment closest to life in the countryside . And, according to the idea of ​​the main founder he should not in any way resemble traditional ethnographic museums, but become an ideal place to escape to the forgotten world of a Romanian village . And he did it: walking through the museum and looking through the windows of wooden houses, you expect to see a zealous hostess , which bakes bread, or a peasant with a cow coming out of the crib .

In the very center of the Romanian capital there is a place where you forget for a while that you are in the heart of a modern European metropolis. This is the National Village Museum, more like a nature reserve than a traditional museum.

From the history of the village museum

The Bucharest Village Museum became the first open-air museum in the country . It was founded in May 1936 . , at the inauguration was attended by the King of Romania Karol II . The creation of this museum was preceded by a really painstaking work . Before the buildings and constructions from different parts of Romania appeared here, they were dismantled in their native place, and then they were delivered to Bucharest by rail . Recreating the pa boxes of peasant life of 130 masters, thoroughly versed in the ancient ways of construction . Firstly, for the sake of authenticity, they even wanted to settle the peasants here, but later they refused this idea, since it would be almost impossible to keep valuable antiques and houses .

The development of the museum was phased. Originally, an exhibition was set up on the territory of 4, 5 hectares, then the exposition expanded, and by 1948 the area of ​​the territory reached 9 hectares. Finally, in 1990, another increase in the museum followed - up to 12 hectares.

The exposition of the village museum includes more than 70 complexes consisting of 322 objects. There are 47 residential buildings, several household buildings, three wooden churches, three windmills, and various installations and devices working on water power.

Some of the museum's buildings have historical value and are built in the past centuries in terms of construction time. For example, a two-tiered windmill and a water mill date back to the 19th century, wooden churches date back to the end of the 18th century. Through everyday objects: furniture, dishes, art products, clothes and carpets - one can comprehend the originality and identity of the people's life, the taste and preferences of the peasants of the Romanian outback.

The National Museum of the village of Dmitri Gusti

Useful information

Address: Bucuresti , Sos. Kiseleff, nr. 28-30, sector 1.

Phone: +40 (021) 317-91-03.

Fax: +40 (021) 317-90-68.

Working hours: Monday - Sunday: 9 : 00 - 17:00.

Working hours of the temporary exhibitions: Wednesday - Sunday: 9:00 - 17:00.

Entrance: 10 ROL, for pensioners and cardholders Euro 26: 5 ROL, for students: 2 , 50 ROL, for preschoolers, veterans, visitors with disabilities, admission is free.

The cost of the audio guide is 50 ROL.

How to get there: by buses No. 113, 131, 205, 282, 330, 331, 335, 783 to Triumphal arch station, tram No. 41 to the station Agronomic Institute, by metro to the station Aviators.


Prices Uk as of January 2015