ASTRA National Museum Complex

The ASTRA Museum is actually a group of museums in Sibiu. They include the Transylvanian Culture Museum, the Museum of Folk Tradition, the Museum of Ethnography and the Saxon Museum. It's at a crossroads, ethnographically speaking, between the Romanian population and the Saxon population, ve arrived in the Middle Ages. The Romanians created their capital not far away, and the state of Valachia. The cultural ASTRA association began building these museums in 1897 to preserve the area's rich heritage. For example, in Bucharest, there is also a "village museum" in Herăstrău Park, which represents the habitat of many of Romania's regions.