"Dimitrie Gusti" National Village Museum - Short Philatelic History Review
Bogdan-Vasile Cioruța *
Office of Informatics, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca - North University of Baia Mare, 62A Victor Babeș street, 430083, Baia Mare, Romania and Faculty of Applied Sciences from Bucharest, Politehnica University of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independenței, 060042, Bucharest, Romania.
Alexandru Leonard Pop
Office of Informatics, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca - North University of Baia Mare, 62A Victor Babeș street, 430083, Baia Mare, Romania.
Mirela Coman
Faculty of Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca - North University Centre of Baia Mare, 62A Victor Babeș Street, 430083, Baia Mare, Romania and Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, 3-5 Calea Mănăștur, 400372, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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Abstract
We all have a special connection with the village museum (in this case “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum), our origin as a people being intimately linked to the life of the village. Traveling through the villages, it is easy to notice that most of the settlements have their old wooden church and houses, created by the local craftsmen. But few are accessible to the general public to visit, study, or learn about the history behind village life. Each church and house has its history and story inlaid in wood. Through this paper, we intend to review some philatelic aspects regarding the Romanian cultural heritage, respectively the wooden houses from the “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum. Following the analyzes carried out based on the data from the consulted literature, as well as following other observations made about the sites with philatelic content, we concluded that there is an important and special series, at the same time, of philatelic issues that support the idea of cultural tourism. Such tourism can bring many benefits to the Romanian people, who also is firmly in the culture of the village, traditional architecture, handicrafts, and traditions as old as time itself.
Keywords: Country life, cultural heritage, National Village Museum, philatelic issues.