The Folk Customs Museum from Bucovina, Gura Humorului, invites all the guests in a very special atmosphere of the bucovinean village. Here, the transition from one holiday to another is very easy: St Andrew, Christmas, New Year, Epiphany or the begining of the agricultural and pastoral year, Easter, St. Peter, St. Elias and finaly the closing of the calendar is made with Good Friday, Sf. Paraschiva and Sf Demetrius.
Each setting of the museum is representative but not the objects themselves are interesting. The stories that must be heard are the most interesting in this museum.
Besides the rich heritage and cleverly exposed (over 3.000 objects), the museum hosts an art deaprtment with a permanent exhibition, being set up around a donation made by a French painter from Saint Tropez several years ago. This man was originaly from Romania. He was born in the village of Straja and his name is Georges Cotos.
In 1958 the museum had a heterogeneous collection with two halls, one dedicated to the "Socialist agriculture" and other dedicated to the "Conquest of cosmos" by the soviet spears of technology: Gagarin and Laika.
Then, after revolution from 1989, the museum moved to the former restaurant Bucovina because the headquarters had been claimed.
The father of the museum was the teacher Constantin Scortaru. The collection includes: iron traps, trumpets, harrows, forks from nineteenth century and carved chairs.
