The open air museum comprises monuments of folk architecture and technology from Gorj: Cula Cornoiu (18th century), St. John the Baptist masonry church (1820), peasant wooden constructions (houses, cellars, folk fittings from the 18th - 19th centuries) exhibits of folk furniture, costumes, fabrics, tools, pottery, wood carvings etc. The beginnings of the museum date from 1968, when an exhibition was organized in Cula Cornoiu of Curtişoara. In 1970, the County Council of Gorj decided to set out an open air museum featuring "The Folk Architecture of Gorj". The museum was inaugurated on the 18th of August 1975. It was placed in the village of Curtişoara, 10 km north of the t...own of Tg. Jiu, on a surface of 13 hectares. Here are on display 24 monuments of folk architecture from the 18th - 19th centuries.
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