Muzeul Satului Bucovinean

**Muzeul Satului Bucovinean**
	; The Straja house
Data
place	Suceava
Art	open air museum
opening	1998 (beginning around 1970)
Website	http://www.muzeulsatuluibucovinean.ro/

The Museum Muzeul Satului Bucovinean ( German Museum of the Bukowina Village , also Bukowina Village Museum ) is an open-air museum in Suceava , Romania . Its task is to preserve the cultural heritage and folk architecture of Bukovina . Founded in the 1970s, the museum has grown strongly, especially since 1990. It is located in the eastern part of Suceava near the fortress of Cetatea de Scaun .

history

The history of the museum goes back to 1958. At that time, many folk architecture buildings still existed in the villages of Bukovina. However, it was not until 1971 when objects from the rural population worth preserving were collected in a first campaign. The city council of Suceava provided 1.7 hectares of land on the plateau near the fortress to erect eleven buildings there. Three buildings were transferred by 1976, after which work was stopped again.

After the end of communism in 1990, work was resumed and the museum area was expanded to 6 hectares. From 1998 30 buildings have been purchased, some of which have already been built in the museum or will be built in the near future.

Building in the museum

The museum has a variety of buildings, almost all of them with typically low hipped roofs . These are small huts, such as the ticket booth at the museum entrance, townhouses, farmhouses, a pottery workshop for black ceramics, a water mill , a fulling mill , an oil mill, a forge , a pub , a shed for storing supplies and tools, racks for storing fruit etc. Most of the buildings date from around 1900, some from the early 19th century, some are from what is now the Republic of Moldova . The houses are partly furnished with functional workshops that are also used for events. The museum still has the Orthodox , Ascension consecrated wooden church from Vama from the year 1783. 2001 the church was transferred to the museum and on Palm Sunday, 12 April 2009 re-consecrated.

The memorial in memory of the martyrs of Bukovina is dedicated to Dumitru Catana and Gerasimos (Zamfir) Nicoară. As soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I, you refused to kill Romanian peasants as a firing squad and were therefore murdered yourself.