Orăștie Traditional Village Museum

The Museum of the Traditional Village was arranged, outdoors, on the outskirts of Orăștie, in 2008, by the artist Mircea Zdrenghea, president of the Association "Patrimonium" Orăștie, an organization founded in 2004. The settlement, located right at the entrance to the city, from Deva, on the hill guarded by the monument "Dacian Sign" (Dacian Sica). It looks like a real village, with traditional households, a church, including a mill, a school, a mill or the workshops of various crafts, all relocated there from several corners of the county.

Hundreds of years old houses

Several houses, hundreds of years old, which were abandoned, were saved and brought back to life, within the Museum of the Traditional Village, arranged at the entrance to the city of Palia. The village - museum, in the open air, is divided into two sectors of approximately equal size, on almost one hectare, separated by the Turdaș brook, on the right is located the “Romanian Village”, and on the left, the “European Village”. The exhibits are original, the buildings being systematically dismantled from the place of origin and reconstituted / restored in the museum, only some of the materials used for these works are not the original. The oldest house in this museum comes from the commune of Bătrâna and was built around 1780. The museum complex also includes, among others, another old house from 1812, from the village of Roșia Poieni and another, made of stone. , from Ceru Băcăinți, from 1887 and another built in 1910.

The stone church, which can be admired in the museum complex, was brought here as a school, as it had functioned in last years "of life". In recent years, it has been brought from the village of Valea Bradului, a mill with electric drive, but of traditional construction. Much work has been done on it, both on the interior installation and on the old, recovered and restored scale-type tile roof, piece by piece. There is also a house here in the village of Poiana, in the commune of Balșa, Hunedoara, which was brought and built in the second half of 2018. It is about a special construction, on two levels, down - stone, up - wood.

In the future, the representatives of the Traditional Village Museum have beautiful plans. They also want to set up a nearby amphitheater with an outdoor stage for cultural events, including international festivals.