ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM

This museum gathers everything you need to know about the village and its surroundings. The fauna and flora, craft and farming practices and especially the history of Slobozia Mare. A series of rooms, like the successive rooms of a house, have accumulated a large number of documents on the artists of the region, traditions, economic activities, architecture, currency. The first room presents a diorama of Lake Beleu, a gallery of the local honorary citizens as well as those who fell in the ranks of the Red Army. The second room is dedicated to the Moldova of yesterday and today, local legends and the deputy Gheorghe Mare. In the third one is reproduced a peasant house with its interior and courtyard. The history of deportations, famine and local veterans of the Second World War is displayed in the fourth room. The fifth room deals with economics, while the sixth room is devoted to science and local scholars such as E. Grebelnicov, N. Paladi and D. Balanel.

The most moving are photographic prints and documents in memory of the missing from the Second World War, the Soviet period and its kolkhozes, but also an exhaustive list and all the portraits of the village people deported to Siberia.

The building was constructed in 1938-1942 and served as the town hall until 1944, then as a hospital for typhus patients until 1947, and as a primary school from 1950 to 1988, when it hosted the ethnographic museum.