Travel guide: Romania's village museums, the portals to a not-so-distant past

Open-air folk museums are definitely something to add to the “what to visit this vacation” list. In addition to offering a most welcome break from the noisy and crowded city life, they also give visitors the chance to discover the old traditional village life while spending some time outdoors.

The capital Bucharest is home to one of the largest and best-known open-air museums in Romania, but there are plenty of other choices across the country. For example, the ASTRA Museum in Sibiu is definitely worth visiting, as it hosts the largest open-air ethnographic exhibition in Europe. However, there are other such museums awaiting visitors in Romania, and we’ve listed some of them below.