ABSTRACT
Between 1967 and 1972, period when the possibility of founding in Iaşi an open-air museum was taken into consideration, complex researches and acquisitions carried out on the territory of the county of Botoşani, various materials were purchased, describing the most significant aspects of the Botoşanean village. The collections which entered the heritage of the Ethnographic Museum in Iaşi, illustrate through their items the traditional occupations and handicrafts of the inhabitants of this zone of Romania, and include various objects of domestic inventory, furniture articles, numerous wooden objects of domestic usage, folk costumes, ceramic ware etc. A particularly interesting item is the wind mill, of rather small dimensions (with mill stones), purchased from Crăiniceni village, Paltin commune, and which has been installed in the first room – illustrating agriculture – of the permanent exhibition of the museum.