The Vrancea Museum Complex includes sections of history and archaeology, ethnography, life sciences; it also includes the mausoleums in Marasesti, Marasti, Soveja, as well as the memorial houses of personalities such as: Ion Roata (Campuri commune) and Al Vlahuta” (Dumbravita commune). The VranceaMuseum holds a rich collection of archaeological, ethnographical and life sciences objects, displayed in the basic exhibitions or in the 72 objectives of the Ethnography Section. The Museum also holds objects and documents bearing the print of the events that took place in the 19^th century (the Union of the Principalities, the Independence War), and also of personalities of the Vrancea social, cultural and political life (the writer and diplomat Duiliu Zamfirescu, the legal counselor Gh. Apostoleanu, the architect Ion Mincu, the geographer S.Mehedinti, the founder of the Focsani theater – Major Gh. Pastia, the writer Al. Vlahuta, the peasant Ion Roata).

Visiting schedule:

Tuesday – Sunday – 09.00 – 17.00

www.cjvrancea.ro

The ValceaVillageMuseum has outlined its thematic profile as early as 1974 under the form of a village-museum, intended to recreate the functional image of a traditional rural settlement with all its social and cultural institutions, on an 8-hectare surface. This museum is currently representative through its four sectors: household – house sector, consisting of 42 units and over 12,000 museum objects, the social – cultural sector of the public utility monuments, which include a rural primary school at the beginning of the 20th century, an inn dating back at the end of the 19th century, a wooden church built in 1785; wooden cradle, handicrafts sector – folk techniques, showcasing the procedures and techniques of processing raw materials necessary for the manufacturing of various tools, pots and general household items, and others, the specialized constructions sector – represented by several units illustrating the objects placed at the village border or in the mountainous area: roadside crosses, border fountains, bee gardens, a  sheepfold, security towers, etc.

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Visiting schedule:

Summer: Monday – closed; Tuesday – Sunday – 10.00 – 18.00

Winter: Monday – closed; Tuesday – Sunday –10.00 – 17.00  

http://www.museums-valcea.ro/

Organized close to the Throne Citadel of Suceava, the BucovinaVillageMuseum exhibits the folk art architectonic heritage of the UpperLand. The youngest of the open-air museums in Romania, it was “born” in the 8^th decade of last century, when the Bucovinan village had various monuments of folk architecture, and took shape after the 1990s, when new households and technical folk installations were transferred, rebuilt and open to the visitors.

Apart from the essential role of preserving, restoring and exhibiting the ethnographic cultural heritage, the Bucovina Village Museum has become prominent in the national cultural landscape through the organization of national and local cultural events – presentation of the area’s customs and traditions, organization of folk handicraftsmen fairs for the promotion of genuine folk creations, camps for students – therefore, the museum became a polarizing center for Suceava’s cultural life.

Visiting schedule:

Summer (15 April – 15 October) – Tuesday – Sunday – 10.00 – 18.00

Winter (15 October – 15 April) – Tuesday – Friday – 08.30 – 15.30

www.muzeulbucovinei.ro/muzeu/expozitii-permanente/muzeul-satului

The VillageMuseum in Bran is located in the very yard of the BranCastle (the most visited tourist site in Romania, according to official statistics – due to the legends presenting the main character “Dracula”) and represents a significant cultural vestige of the Bran area. Set up over 40 years ago, the VillageMuseum highlights the traditional architecture of the Barsa Land (Burzenland) villages.

The main types of households and houses displayed inside the museum, along with a series of ancillary household constructions, refer to the basic occupations of the time, such as: agriculture, livestock farming, the processing of wool and wood, etc. The BranVillageMuseum highlights the typical architectural evolution from one-room houses to two or three-room houses, with porch and various ancillary constructions.

The VillageMuseum in Bran is a live testimony of this ethnographic area rich in culture and traditions and an attraction point for numerous tourists who transit the Bran or spend their vacation in the local B&Bs.

Muzeul Satului din Bran este o marturie vie a acestei zone etnografice, bogată în cultură şi tradiţii şi totodată, reprezentand un punct de atracţie pentru numeroşii turişti care tranzitează Branul sau petrec sejurul la pensiunile de aici.

Visiting schedule:

Summer: Monday – 12.00 – 18.00; Tuesday – Sunday – 9.00 – 18.00

Winter: Tuesday – Sunday – 9.00 – 16.00  

http://ghidulmuzeelor.cimec.ro/id.asp?k=1702

The beginnings of the Valcea museography dates back right from the end of the 2^nd World War, after the setting up of the first museum in Ramnicu Valcea – the Ramnicu Valcea Regional Museum – in the 1949-1950s, by the transfer from the “Lahovari” High School of several archaeological, historical, plastic art, icons, old church books, live science object collections, etc).

The museum was originally organized in the building of the current “Casa Simian” ArtsMuseum, and transformed into the RamnicuValceaDistrictMuseum in 1955, becoming the Valcea County Museum in 1968.

After 1968 the ValceaCountyMuseum has continuously developed and extended its collections, turning into a cultural institution focused on the research, preservation, restoration and display of such collections through exhibitions, cultural programs, museum pedagogy programs.

Because it was designed and organized as a cultural complex, the ValceaCountyMuseum consists in 9 museum units, of which the VillageMuseum is emblematic for the local traditional culture.

http://www.muzee-valcea.ro

The Village Museum in Cernat was named after its founder Pál Haszmann. The museum is located in Cernatul de Sus, in the curia of Gyula Damokos, namely in the park and yard that surround it. The curia was built between the 17th and 19th centuries, being given its neoclassicist appearance in 1831. The area larger than two hectares and the curia with many rooms offer a unique possibility to set up an open-air ethnographic museum. The institution opened its gates to the public on February 25th, 1973. The current coordinator of the ever richer collection and museum activities is Pál-Péter Haszmann, while his brother, József-István Haszmann manages the Folk Art School. Their brother Lajos Haszmann, along with the extended family, provides financial support. The nature of the open-air ethnographic museum is given by the Szekely houses and gates, the water mill, the typical houses of the Szeklers’ folk architecture – all relocated to the garden of the Haszmann Pál Museum.

Visiting schedule:
Monday – Sunday – 08.00 – 20.00
http://www.sznm.ro

The quarters of the Ethnography and FolkArt Museum (the former headquarters of the National Bank of Romania – Tulcea Branch) is one of Tulcea’s emblematic edifices, and is, along with other constructions, a valuable example of architecture.

The construction is based on a design developed in 1924 and was built during the interwar period (1924-1927); consequently, at the end of an age when the national movement manifested in Romanian architecture.

Through its great diversity of the collections, the heritage of the Ethnography and FolkArt Museum reflects a unique cultural model generated by the ethnical cohabitation of Romanians and other populations. The 8000 objects make up an inestimable decodable ethnographic capital in the folk art and costumes, ethnography and photo-document collections. The collection of the museum: towels, metal pots, carpets, the Aromanian (Macedo-Romanian) collection. The museum objectives subordinated to the museum are: the EnisalaVillageMuseum, the BabadagOrientalArt Museum, the “Panait Cerna” Memorial House

Visiting schedule:

Tuesday – Sunday – 09.00 – 17.00

Monday – closed

http://www.icemtl.ro

In 1935 the Founding Committee of the County Ethnography and Folk Art Museum was set up, and in 1936 the museum was inaugurated. In 1970 the exhibition theme focused on wood handicraft civilization. The museum is hosted in an architectural monument building (constructed in 1900) and which had also been used as the County’s Prefecture. It includes interior objects made of wood (furniture, tools and utensils for occupations and handicrafts), technical (manual and mechanical) equipment: oil presses, grape and other fruit hand press, hammer for baize, manual and water mills, cup wheels which transmit the force of water for gold stamp, as well as other complex installations. The yard of the museum hosts a permanent exhibition – small open-air section highlighting the houses, gates and household ancillary buildings made of wood, specific to the area.

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Visiting schedule:

Winter: Tuesday – Sunday – 09.00 – 18.00; Monday – closed

Summer: Tuesday – Sunday – 09.00 – 17.00; Monday – closed

http://muzeul.lemnului.tripod.com