National Museum of the Romanian Peasant
Red-brick folk museum of peasant costumes, icons and pottery, with seasonal craft and food fairs.
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This guide to the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest follows Irina Nicolau, an ethnologist on the small team that built the museum in the early nineteen nineties, and the question she put to her colleagues when a famous city street reached a big anniversary. You'll meet the anthropologist Ioana Popescu, who had to make the idea work, and a family saying about eating clouds. Best heard outside, facing the red-brick tower.
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