The Department of Ethnography and Folk Art is housed in an 18th century building listed as a monument of architecture, built in the Muscel style, with a ground floor and an upper floor. The building was built in 1735 by the chancellor Ştefănescu, as the last owner was the lawyer Gheorghe Ştefănescu, hence the name of “Gică Ştefănescu” Villa. It is the oldest civil building in Câmpulung. In 1928 it was restored by the Câmpulung architect Dumitru Ionescu Berechet, who got his doctorate in architecture with this paper, which won the Official Salon award. In 1948 the building was donated to the Romanian Academy with a view to becoming a mu...seum, and in 1952 the Câmpulung County Museum was reorganized here. In 1977 it became the department of ethnography and folk art. The building houses valuable collections of pottery, folk costumes, and fabrics. On the ground floor we can find a homestead kitchen looking like a canvas by Nicolae Grigorescu and Ştefan Luchian; the “small house” or drawing room endowed with spinning and weaving artifacts, and next to it the “large house” or guest house. On the upper floor the exhibits include pottery artifacts reminding of the Câmpulung potter’s art of yore, a gorgeous pyrographed furniture, and an enchanting Muscel costume parade.
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