Maramureș Village Museum, Sighetu Marmației

Maramian Village Museum in Syhota Maravian - an outdoor museum in Syshot, in the Marmarosz district, founded in 1973 in Romania covers an area of ​​20 hectares.

The museum presents rural historic buildings mainly wooden from this region. There are farms of Romanians and varieties of construction characteristic of ethnic minorities inhabiting the historical Maramresis: Hungarian, Ukrainian and Jewish. The oldest monuments are: Codrea House from the village of Berbesti from 1596 and the church from 1616. Most of the buildings come from the 16th, 17th centuries, 18th and 19th centuries, which makes them the oldest preserved houses in Romania and in this part of Europe.

The museum presents buildings according to the criteria of the region, construction and functions - that's why, for example, the church together with the cemetery or the school building are separated from the rest of the buildings. Noteworthy are also a mill from IEUD or other technical constructions using the water drive force: Distilight, Folusz. Regional order is retained by farm buildings, which are most often closed with low fences. Such buildings include: house, stable, barn, pigsty, shed for various devices and elements of small architecture: well, oil squeezing press, brogi.