Village Museum Bucharest 2011

Another fascinating universe of Bucharest's Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti", founded in 1936, at the initiative of Professor Dimitrie Gusti, the head of the Department of Sociology of the University of Bucharest and one of the first sociologists Romans. Village Museum of life after a long research and purchasing of 50 households. They were dismantled for transport and then reassembled in Bucharest by artisans brought from all over the country, in places of origin of the houses. Soon the Museum became known and visited by Romanian and foreign tourists, receiving, in a few stages new plots of land so they can be expanded.

Today, the village Museum, located on the Sauce. Kiselyov, at 28-30, occupies 12 acres on the western shore of Lake Herastrau and is an oasis of serenity, which carries visitors through Romania to another era. From the very beginning, the Museum was designed by Professor Gusti as a infatisa visitor space what reality, life of the village, as it was lived by roman peasant does. Thus, in addition to populating in the 1940s, some households with residents of all areas of their home country, the Museum's exhibits are organised into historical regions of the country. The visitor starts in the Westcountry, to be developed, then the monastaries in Maramures, Transylvania, Dobruja and Oltenia, Bukovina