Traveling, walking, and visiting the Astra Ethnographic Museum near Sibiu was and is an adventure. An adventure of discovery, learning, and knowing the past of a country, in this case Romania, through exhibits that evoke life in the country.
An ethnographic museum is where objects, costumes, tools, and machinery that reflect the life and customs of a community are preserved and exhibited.
Astra Museum Sibiu is the most important ethnographic museum in Romania and the largest in Europe. It is set in a protected natural area in a forest on the outskirts of Sibiu, perhaps the most beautiful town in Romania. The museum resembles a big village, the alleys are ten kilometers long!
I spent almost a whole day there, took many photos, and didn't manage to present them in one blog. This is the last part, and the other three that preceded it are these:
Astra Museum Sibiu
Young And Free
Windmills In Astra Museum Sibiu
In this last part, I try to show you the museum from the windmills area to the complex's exit...
At the end of the alley, we came across a building that housed all kinds of carts.
When we got close enough we found the explanation: transportation.
A lot of wheels, each one more beautiful. I tried to imagine what those people were like, from the beginning of the last century and even older, dressed in festive clothes, in these carriages.
Other means of transport are used for field work and crop transportation.
Tools and accessories...
Local craftsmen, carpenters, and blacksmiths made all these carts and tools.
I am thinking now, looking at the photos and remembering the immensity of the museum that just walking through the forest is enough to enjoy nature and relaxation, the lack of crowds, the pleasant coolness of the shade of the trees and the lake water.
Because I mentioned the lake, I really got close to it and some things specific to the life of the peasants who lived near the water... A place to rest and eat.
It looks like a boat, hollowed out of a single tree trunk.
Dugout!
It is quite a primitive and unwieldy construction, in my opinion, but I think the ancient inhabitants of the waters have done their job with it.
Next, I saw something more elaborate and was amazed, I hadn't seen such installations in other museums.
I couldn't find out who was pulling the bridge. Could one man have done it?
So the ferryman lived right next to the bridge!
Also, looking at the photos taken, I realized that it can be done something else in this museum, bird watching!
What I thought were two lovers looking for a secluded place to stay away from people turned out to be just a desire to watch waterfowl.
There are no houses, no tools, just nature alone, a sign that the end is near.
I mean at the end of the museum visit!
Just like at the beginning, at the end, we also came across a modern wooden sculpture, which probably helped to get out of the museum's old-life atmosphere. What could it be, a bird?
It was an amazing day and I am sure I will be back.
Astra Museum Sibiu
Pădurea Dumbrava Street, nr. 16-20, gate 1, 550399 Sibiu
Email: [email protected]
Entrance ticket prices:
Adults - $7
Pupils/students - $2
Children under 6 years - free
Visit program:
Monday – Sunday: 09:00 - 17:00 (last ticket at 16:30)
As always, a beautifully illustrated article. Very good! :-)
Thank you!
I like that you noticed, that it is well illustrated. I'm glad you saw what many of my few readers don't seem to notice.
I like photography and I try, even though I'm an amateur, to choose the best pictures, because I'm not a good writer, and right now I'm in some confusion, but I know that in any blog we have to bring something of interest to be worth reading.
For example you. You first have original music and excellent photos and special places you show. You have both nature and cities nearby that show quality living.
As you may have noticed, I rely on, not technically perfect photos, but hopefully interesting ones.
Thx, mate. :-) I believe you should simply be as authentic as possible. I'm also a complete photo amateur, but I really enjoy taking photos.
You can see that in your photos - that you really enjoy what you do.
You are right, I love what I do. Thank you!
What a wonderful museum in nature, and it shows everything related to field work, it reminds me of a museum here of arts and customs. It is beautiful to see each piece, the bridge and even the birds. Thank you very much!
With pleasure! It is a very nice place that I miss now.
I hope you can come back and bring a lot more, I really enjoyed the ride.
Maybe in the summer.
So be it!
It is a charming, beautiful place. The nature is incredible. I liked each of the photographs and the artistic touch they emanate.
Thank you very much!
Museum always be place for some one to remember some thing.
Yes, a place to learn and remember.
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This is a really beautiful photography. The nature photography was very beautiful, I liked it. In fact, the beauty of nature is unmatched by anything.