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Village Museum

An open-air museum of wooden farmhouses, windmills and churches from every corner of Romania, in a lakeside park.

Open: Every day
Price: Paid
Time Needed: 2 hours
Address: Șoseaua Pavel Dimitrievici Kiseleff 28–30, 011347 BucharestDirections
Getting There: Aviatorilor metro station, then a 10-minute walk along the park.

Why Go

The sociologist Dimitrie Gusti founded the museum in 1936. Hundreds of buildings, among them a wooden church from Maramureș and thatched houses from the Danube delta, show how rural Romanians lived.