
House - Village Museum	Fontain - Village Museum

The Village Museum of Valcea County

The village museum has been outlined its topical profile since 1974, like a form of a village museum designated to reconstitute, on a 8 hectares area, the functional image of a traditional rural settlement with all its social - cultural institutions.

The museum is divided in four parts that comprise:

The farm – home sector that comprises 42 units and over 42.000 museum objects illustrating farm's structure according with the traditional occupations; agriculture, fruit trees growing, vineyard growing, animal growing or a series of handy craft or popular technique, in the same time looking for diversity and houses 'evolution in volume and design with one more rooms.

The social-cultural sector of the public utility buildings comprises a rural primary school that was built at the beginning of the XX-th century at Salistea village, Malaia commune, a wooden church built in 1785, now being transferred from Nicolae Balcescu commune, a swing from Stoenesti commune and in the future the sector will be completed with a rural city hall also with other valuable objectives and objects.
The popular technical skills (and handicrafts) sector presents: - the technical modalities in processing some row materials, in order to produce tools, vases and home useful objects.
The buildings sector represented by few units from village's boundary or from mountains' area: small praying temples brought, boundary fountains, beehives, a wine-growing manor house from Fartatesti commune, watching towers and others.