herastrau park museum village NEED TO SEE

The #National #Museum of the Village „Dimitrie Gusti” is the name assigned by the Romanian Government Decision no. 742/2003, art. 18 lit. the institution called the Village Museum, a creation of the folklorist and sociologist Dimitrie Gusti. The museum was inaugurated on May 10, 1936, in the presence of #King Carol II of Romania, and for the public, on May 17, 1936, [3] being currently one of the biggest tourist attractions of Bucharest. The motivation for arranging the museum was the importance of the village in the culture of Romania, a country where, even at the beginning of the twentieth century, long after the Industrial Revolution, most of the population lived in the country. The location plans were executed by the writer, playwright, director and set designer Victor Ion Popa, and the necessary financial funds were made available by the Royal Cultural Foundation. The memorial plaque from the Village Museum, which commemorates the creation of the King Mihai Park, under the reign of His Majesty King Carol II. In order to build the Village Museum, which Dimitrie Gusti used to call “the sad sound of the bells of Romanian history”, the houses were disassembled, piece by piece, transported by train, cart or boat to Bucharest where they were reassembled on the surface. today's museum located on the shores of #Lake #Herastrau. The #oldest house is built in the seventeenth century, and the most recent belongs to the twentieth century. The houses in the hilly and mountainous regions are different from those in the plain area through the high foundation, the ones from the saddles being mostly with low foundations, the ones from the areas where the enemies are invaded are often half buried in the ground. Throughout history, the museum was damaged in the years of World War II by the presence of refugees from #Bessarabia, then in 1997 and 2002 by two fires, but continued to expand its exhibits, the museum's latest wing. being opened in 2016. source wikipedia