Museum of the Romanian Peasant

The Museum of the Romanian Peasant is so good you may want to hug it. Chosen as Europe's best museum in 1996, this museum makes the best of little money. Hand-made cards (in English) personalise exhibits, such as a full 19th-century home upstairs, a heartbreakingly sweet room devoted to grandmas, and 'hidden' rooms that you're ushered to via hand-scrawled directions. Access a gift shop from the back side of the museum.

Don't miss the (rare) communism exhibit downstairs, with Lenin busts, portraits of Romanian leader Gheorghiu-Dej, and heart-rending accounts of those who objected to collectivisation (in Romanian only). An 18th-century Transylvanian church is in the backlot, as is its gift shop.