Photographer (amateur) at the Village Museum

One of the most interesting museums in Bucharest is the Village Museum. Located on the edge of the city's largest park, Herastrau Park, it is an open-air ethnographic museum. It could not be otherwise, because it hosts a large number of peasant houses from all regions of Romania, houses hundreds of years old.

Herastrau Park is my favorite park for longer walks. The park is named after the lake in the middle of it, which is, of course, called... Herastrau! A walk along the lakeshore, a detour around the lake, means a distance of 5 km, which is a longer walk.

Longer and longer
As I get older.

I even feel like I'm becoming a poet. Or a rhyme-finder(as uninspired as possible)

Every walk-in Herastrau brings me very close to the village museum. Every time I plan to visit again this museum (because I visit it every year), I keep waiting for a nice day.

I finally visited it a few days ago. On a day when it rained. That's what happens if you pick too many days and want the best one... You get a bad one.

I'll do a more detailed story on the museum in another post, probably tomorrow. Right now I'd like to put some of the photos I took, to choose from the multitude of photos just a few that I liked best.

The following photos have two characteristics, both of which result in lower quality. They are taken with a smartphone and are not edited.

_{A famous character of this museum. A man who makes the traditional footwear of Romanian peasants}

_{Dolls in traditional costumes made by folk artists}

_{Traditional Romanian masks. Used in various rituals dating back to antiquity. Barbarian rituals of the ancestors of the Romanians, called Dacians.}

_{The Village Museum is a... village.}

_{The day I visited the museum was a Romanian holiday called "Dragobete", the Romanian version of Valentine's Day. Many amateur artists hoped to make important sales, but unfortunately, the rain prevented many people from visiting the museum and therefore their stalls.}

_{Everyone tried their best to protect the items they were selling, and themselves, from the unwanted rain.}

_{One of the exhibited houses, covered with reeds. The roof looks like a helmet. That's what it is.}

_{However, the umbrella is best in this situation.}

_{The rain was not that heavy. Some protected themselves with umbrellas and others didn't feel the need.}

_{I like the windows. Here are the windows of a wooden house. So small that they don't let the heat out of the house and don't let enemies in.}

_{The entrance to the courtyard of a house. I liked the white columns, some unusual elements in traditional Romanian architecture.}

_{Youngest visitor. Quite interested in what he saw around him, but even more interested in what he got to eat...}

_{As soon as you enter the museum you encounter this impressive tree whose branches resemble the tentacles of a giant octopus.}

I used the smartphone because it is more convenient in places where there are many people and I did not edit the photos because I did not have time.