Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania, Ethnographic museum in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
The Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania is split between two locations: the Reduta Palace downtown and a village park with traditional farms set in a forest. Both sections contain objects, photographs, and documents showing how rural communities lived and worked.
The museum was founded in 1922 as the first Romanian institution to create an open-air section displaying historic buildings. This outdoor area opened to visitors in 1929.
The collection reveals the names and purposes of everyday objects from rural homes that families genuinely used in their daily lives. The items on display show how people organized their homes and what skills were essential to survive in the countryside.
Both the downtown palace and the outdoor village are accessible to visitors most weekdays, though the site closes on Mondays. The opening hours vary with the seasons, so it is worth checking exact times before you go.
The outdoor section preserves about a dozen traditional farms with multiple buildings each, along with workshops and wooden churches from different Transylvania regions. These structures were originally built elsewhere and later reconstructed on site to show regional differences in architecture and daily life.
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