Village Museum Bucharest, THE DIMITRIE GUSTI NATIONAL VILLAGE MUSEUM – A BRIEF HISTORY Down on the Herastrau lakeside, right in the middle of Romania’s capital city, the wandering traveller will encounter an authentic Romanian village, rich in monuments and artifacts from the XVIIth century, all the way up to the XXth century, representative constructions originating from important ethnographical regions which have been granted a second life at the National Village Museum „Dimitrie Gusti".