Exhibit · History section
The portrait of Alexandru Ioan Cuza
A portrait of the prince of the 1859 Union, kept by the museum since its years in the Town Hall House.
The portrait of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, the prince who achieved the Union of the Romanian Principalities in 1859, has a special resonance in Baia: the museum was born in the Town Hall House, a building raised in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the very age of Cuza’s reforms.
Today the portrait moves, together with the whole collection, into the new building the commune raised for its museum, linking the modern history of the commune to the old medieval capital.
Other exhibits
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.