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Undoubtedly one of the most worthwhile sights in Bucharest is the Village Museum ( Muzeul Satului : Oct-March daily 9am-5pm; April-Sept Mon 9am-5pm, Tues-Sun 9am-8pm; $1) at Sos. Kiseleff 28-30. Established in 1936, this fascinating collection of over three hundred houses and other structures from every region of Romania shows the extreme diversity of folk architecture. It is a wonderful ensemble of wooden churches, peasant dwellings and workshops and whilst most houses remain off limits it is possible to enter a good cross-section of these structures. Perhaps the most interesting are the oaken houses from Maramures with their rope-motif carvings and shingled roofing, and their beamed gateways carved with animals and hunting scenes, Adam and Eve and the Tree of Life, and suns and moons. Other highlights are the heavily thatched dwellings from Salciua de Jos in Alba county; dug-out homes (with vegetables growing on the roof) from Draghiceni and Castranova in Oltenia; and windmills from Tulcea county in the Delta. Mud-brick dwellings from the fertile plains ironically appear poorer than the homes of peasants in the less fertile highlands where timber and stone abound; while the importance of livestock to the Szekely people of Harghita county can be seen by their barns, which are taller than their houses. Several houses are currently undergoing restoration after being subject to an arson attack in 1997, allegedly started by a sacked employee. Understandably, this is a no-smoking museum
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