| GPS | (47.643562316895; 26.27165222168) |
| district | Suceava |
| region | Suceava |
| locality | Suceava |
| address | |
| category | Museums, including the house museums |
| year | 1971 |
| ethnic | Romanians |
Bukovina village museum is an open air museum, in the city of Suceava, which is highlighting the cultural and architectural folk heritage of Bukovina. The idea of creating an open air museum to enhance the value of the etnographic potential of Bukovina dates from 1958 when the village of Bukovina still had numerous folk architecture. However, it is only in 1971 that the first field research campaigns to collect folkloric and ethnographic material were started. The Municipal Popular Council of Suceava allocated then 1,7ha of land on the plateau near the Throne Fortress of Suceava, in order to create 11 objectives. During those years, several objectives have been transferred and three of them have been rebuilt (the traditional household of Straja, the dwelling house of Ostra and Roată house of Câmpulung Moldovenesc) until 1976, after which the activity of the museum workers and restorators was interrupted. After the change of the comunist regime, in 1990, the project was resumed, the allocated surface being extended to 6ha on the same site. In the year 1996, by a government decision, Bukovina village was established. Starting with 1998, the acquisition and restoration works were resumed, and 30 new popular architecture objectives were acquired (households and technical installations) which were brought on the plateau of the fortress in order to be reconstructed and made the most of them. Some of them are not rebuilt, this process still being in progress. The open air museum is conceived as a traditional village from Bukovina and should comprise a number of 80 monuments of folk architecture when its organisation will be over: church, school, peasant households, craft workshops, technical installations, a bar, a mine interior and a sheperdess route.
