Parcul Etnografic Romulus Vuia

Romania's first open-air museum, founded on 1 June 1929 as a section of the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania and recognised in law in 1932. Initial area: seventy-five hectares. Today, around two hundred structures and objects.

Its founder, the ethnographer Romulus Vuia, did not want display cases: some of the original households were to be lived in by peasants doing their ordinary work. In 1930 a sheepfold arrived from Poiana Sibiului — with the shepherd and seventy-five sheep.

After the Vienna Diktat of 30 August 1940 the park took refuge in Sibiu and operated there until 1945. In 1956 the thematic plan was restructured by Teodor Onișor and Valer Butură into four sectors: installations and workshops, regional homesteads, ethno-botanical and ethno-zootechnical.

Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 10:00–18:00. Closed Monday and Tuesday. It is the open-air section of the Ethnographic Museum; the indoor one is in the Reduta Palace in the centre, on the same hours.