Exhibit · History section

Precucuteni and Cucuteni pottery

Painted vessels and fragments over five thousand years old, from one of the great cultures of Old Europe.

Demonstration illustration of a vessel and pottery fragments with geometric decoration. — Editorial illustration, not a photograph of an object in the collection.

The Precucuteni and Cucuteni pottery fragments found around Baia belong to one of the most refined prehistoric civilisations of Europe. The vessels were shaped by hand, without a potter’s wheel, and painted with spirals in white, red and black.

They show that the Moldova valley was inhabited and farmed thousands of years before the medieval town was founded.

Other exhibits

Demonstration illustration of a weaving loom and a geometric rug.

Ethnography section

Rugs woven on a traditional loom

Rugs over a hundred years old, made in Baia households and donated by villagers.

Ethnography section

Embroidered towels and woven bags

Homemade textiles with geometric and animal motifs, part of the dowry of Baia families.

Ethnography section

Weaving tools and cooperage

The tools of the crafts that sustained the village, from the spinning distaff to barrel staves.