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Museum of Vine and Orchards is organized as a section of the Golesti Museum Compound, Ștefănești village, Pitești municipality, Argeș county, presents the civilization created by the inhabitants of the vine and orchards zones in the area around the Carpathians, the Danube and the Black Sea.

Being an open air museum of national importance,is the first museum in the world in presenting the two professions and their artifacts.

Setting up the museum at Golești was due to: — the need of discovering, purchasing, keeping and preserving the creations of the Romanian people related to two of its basic professions: vine and fruit growing; the necessity of stimulating studies on the age, continuity and significance of the two professions in the country's economy and history;

— the generous material support given by the local party and state to gather in one place the most important creations of the vine and fruit growers in a area where vine and fruit has long historic tradition.

Since antiquity the soil of area has offered wonderful conditions for the growth, at first wild, of vine and fruit trees. These fruits were gathered and consumed by paleolitic inhabitants. According to archaeological discoveries, the neolithic communities in what is now Romania started cultivating vine and fruit trees. The Getae-Dacians granted special attention to the development of the two professions. For these two domains as well, the Roman epoch meant a special progress, apparent in: the extension of cultivated ground, the improvement of tools and wine-presses, the bettering of the varieties of vine and fruit trees. This reality is also mirrored in the Romanian language which, besides words of autochthonous origin: strugure (grape), butuc (vine), has also kept words of Latin origin: vivă (vine), vie (vineyard), poamă (fruit), must (must), vin (wine), bețiv (drunkard) etc.

In the period of the great migration, the two professions played an important role in the economy of people, though there is a lack of information in this sense. As to the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, there is a great number of documents, notes from foreign tra- Niellers, statistics and proofs of the continuous develop- ment of the two professions, excepting the period of phylloxera, a scorge which led to a structural change in the distribution of the land cultivated with vine. The Vine and Fruit Growing Museum in Romania is made up of two sectors: 1, The open air sector, which displays artifacts be- longing to the peasant civilization in the vine and fruit growing zones of the country in the middle of the 19th century. 2. The indoor sector, which tries to present the history of the two professions ever since the oldest time until nowadays. In its turn, the open air sector has two parts: a) households from vine and fruit growing zones grouped according to historical provinces: houses, cellars, stables, barns, other constructions, with all the tools, installations and inventories the peasants had in their village; b) cellars, distillers, towers, permanent or temporary shelters the villagers had outside their localities in the midst of orchards or vineyards grouped in the specialized sector. The inhabitants of the country's vine and fruit growing regions knew how to blend utility and beauty, • both in starting with the complete mastering creating buildings of proportions and ending with carved details on wooden and in pillars and beams, and even on roof shingles achieving tools, vessels and installations related to the two professions. But as all other inhabitants, these far- mers excelled 'in creating the other household objects, textiles or. embroideries with the same taste and mind for usefulness. Among the artifacts which have a real value in the Museum of Vine and Fruit Growing in Romania we men- tion the houses of Glodeni — Gorj; Izverna — Mehedin!i; Args; Chiojdul Mic Ages; Vulture$ti Cuca Buzäu; Sälciua — Alba etc.; cellars of Drägoeni — Gorj; Negresti — Mehedinvi; Botesti — Arges; Valea Mare — Prahova; Popsti Dimbovita;. Valea Cälugäreascä Vrancea; Sälciua — Alba; Alma'u Mic de Munte Hunedoara etc., mansions of Botäne$ti and Curvipara, and the pantry called jimnivä, of Ceauru, different types of wine presses, numerous types of cosoare (knives) and other various objects. The national and world-wide importance of the mu- seum, marked in writing by numerous Romanian and foreign tourists, including famous scientific personalities, resides among other things in: the gathering and strictly scientific presentation in one place of the material and cultural civilization created by the inhabitants of the vine and fruit growing zones of the country; — the possibility of documentation both for specialists in various fields and for contemporary folk artists; the historical and documentary value of the patri- mony is doubled by the artistic one, and proof thereof is the use of the museum as a setting for Romanian and foreign feature films; the stimulation of scientific research on the two professions by specialists in the field of history, ethno- graphy, archaeology, folklore, sociology, linguistics, art, folkart, architecture etc.; the demonstration with more lasting arguments of the multi-millenium existence and continuity in the area between the Carpathians, the Danube and the Black Sea, of the artistic genius of the Romanians and of the contri- bution of the Romainan people to the development of the European and world civilizations.