Initiated in 1936 by Professor Demetrie Gustie from the Sociology Department in the University of Bucharest, the Romanian National Village Museum is primarily a research resource which has now grown from 29 to 360 buildings, including churches, houses, farm buildings and groups, fishing buildings, inns, windmills and watermills, some re-erected here as recently as 2011, along with furnishings and other historic momentoes of rural life. Even the restaurant is a re-erected inn.  It is, of course, now a tourist attraction showing a way of life that many of the Romanian visitors still remember from their youth including local crafts executed on looms in the houses.

A fascinating museum, with the historic village buildings arranged alongside the lake which is a sociological, craft and architectural research resource.