The Wood Art Museum in Campulung Moldovenesc

The Wood Art Museum displays a large collection of  wooden objects for daily use in a rural society. All objects show the love and care that went into the making. Some are real works of art.

From all the things that were on display I just want to mention a few. After all visiting a museum and taking pictures (flash is to harsh / without flash you have to use the tripod that you don't carry) is no fun. So, there is the cute little table…

And the chair that made me think of the chairs I saw in the hide out of Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra. I looked up the picture. The chair of the Romanians sure looks a lot more comfortable.....

Chair of Fidel Castro

The mugs of birch bark and the little pot….

The beautiful chest….

      Carvings….

The hammer of an oil press…..

But did you ever see a lock that was completely made out of wood? In this Wood Art Museum you can see how it worked. In “the old times” people locked the house when everybody was out. You locked the house just to show that no one was there. And when somebody wanted to wait for you to come home? Everybody new the key was there above the door anyway…..