Muzeul Municipal Câmpulung Muscel, Southern Romania, Romania

5HardWalker 5:00 PM Apr 24, 2016

One day in Campulung Muscel
The city itself is small in a rather bad condition. However for an afternoon-length visit is ok, to enjoy the flavour of a beginning-of-century small city in the Kingdom of Romania. The second day can be reserved to visit the Museum of the city. The main building of the museum offers a rather old aspect. The exhibiton is pretty much similar with those in other local small museums country-wide. I've been impresed to see there so-called "ocaua lui Cuza" and old standard measurement unit used to check the regularities of sales. In the second building of the museum, dedicated to local and Romanian ethnography, the hand-made blouses ("ie" for singular, "ii" for plural) are, for sure, astonishing!. The building itself is interesting, but the tradtional costumes exhibited inside will ask you for another visit. The guide in the ethnography museum (by the way, the museum staff need some further learning of English, French or Italian) told us about a memorial house of a poetry writer. This is in Namaiesti, were this writer, Toparceanu, lived. The premises are charming, with a nice small and poor village. Unfortunately the guide, which is very talkative, can't express herself in a foreign languages. However, the kids enjoyed a lot the small courtyard of the house. Worth to visit for one hour of peace. Finally, our trip to Bran (very, very crowdy and noisy) had a stop to a monument on the peak of the mountain. We learnt that is the "Mausoleul Mateias". Inside is very chill. For Romanians, this monument is, very significant due the large number of soldiers (Romanians and Germans) died there during the WW I. Even the reproduction of the fight is noisy and violent, the kids enjoyed a lot. A little interactivity might turn this kind of exhibition in a very good replacement for computer or mobile games. The entrance fees are very, very cheap. We manage, somehow, to enrich or fridge with 3 new magnets :) (as well very cheap). Next time worth to stay longer for some sightseeing.