“Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum is celebrating 79 years of existence on May 17 by a wide range of events, ranging from exhibitions, colloquies, folk performances and handicraft fairs to a festival of Thai culture.
The day of May 15 is full of events, starting with a colloquium on a religious art exhibition at 11:00. Starting 15:00, “Femininity and adornment” display will be varnished, while the fifth edition of the Thai Culture Festival will have its opening at 18:00. The handicraft fair takes place during 12:00 and 19:00.
Similar activities are scheduled also for May 16, with folk performances included. Brass Band Orchestra in Bucharest will perform inside the museum, as well as Gorjeanca folk band from Targu-Jiu.
The audience is expected to attend the museum’ events within the “the Night of the Museum” European program also on May 16, during 15:00-18:30.
Masca Theater in Bucharest will perform on May 17.
The Romanian Village Museum was set up in the spring of 1936, as a creation of the Romanian Sociological School run by professor Dimitrie Gusti. It was the second largest open-air museum in the country, after Hoia Park of the Transylvania Ethnographic Museum in Cluj-Napoca.
Renamed the Village Museum after 1990, it now rejoins over 80 households, monuments and establishments, 13,258 folk costumes, 7,576 textile objects, 1,530 religious objects, 8,565 ceramics objects, wooden objects (5,817), as well as 93,000 documentary photos.