The Folk Art Museum has over 16,000 exhibits from all the ethnographic Romanian regions.

The various collections show typical Romanian folk costume, the interiors of typical peasant's homes, materials used in home. There are also household and other tools made of wood and metal, as well as pieces of furniture, pieces for worship and for ceremonies.

The museum has different halls, each of them illustrating a particular type of traditional folk product:

• On the  ground floor, is shown the valuable collection of icons on glass. The pieces come from the best known rural and urban workshops of Transilvania, dating from the XVIIIth - XIXth centuries;

• Ceramic collection (Ceramics of the Iza Valley Maramures, Kuty Ceramics Moldova, Vama Oas Ceramics), are made through the technique of scratch-working floral and phytomorphyc motifs;

• The creative use of metals is displayed by the collection of household implement;

• Wooden exhibits (the tools and utensils of domestics textile industry, the ceremonial implements);

• The large woolen decorative fabrics (pillow cases, bed sheets, towels, and rugs);

• Four halls are dedicated to the exhibition of the festive folk costumes (the different types of woman's costumes from the various regions.

In the shop, you can buy traditional handicrafts made by artisans from all over the country.

Visiting this museum, you will be transported for few moments into a space full of Romanian spirituality.

ENTRANCE BILLS:

Romanian tourists: 8,000 ROL ($.27) for a person

student groups: 4,000 ROL ($.14) for a person

foreign tourists: 16,000 ROL ($.54) for a person

GUIDES:

historians, specialists in museography and ethnography - for English and French

PHOTO AND FILMING POSSIBILITIES:

60,000 ROL ($2.05)

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