The Solca museum house is a traditional Bucovina house, built in 1670 and located in Solca village, Suceava county. The house is a historical monument and is included in the list of popular architecture monuments in Suceava county. It is a living example of traditional Bucovina architecture and offers visitors an insight into rural life in this area.
The house is built of wood and has a four-pitched roof with thatched roofs. The walls are plastered and whitewashed, and the chromatic contrast with the wood of the drawers and consoles is a special one. Planimetrically, the house is divided into two rooms (kitchen and "big house") and has a median roof, and in front of the entrance it has a gazebo with a three-bay roof.
The interior of the house is furnished in traditional Bucovina style. The floors are made of clay, the ceilings have exposed beams, and the furniture is traditional: bed, batons, chests of drawers, shelves, dowry boxes. In the kitchen there is a traditional oven with hearth and hob.
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The Solca House-Museum occupies one of the oldest buildings in the town of Solca, with a history stretching back to the second half of the 17th century. This representative building for traditional Bucovina architecture makes both documentary and artistic contributions, being built of wooden beams joined in the characteristic "dovetail" style, and covered with a layer of plaster both inside and outside. Around the house, there is an open, narrow and low porch, stuck to the ground, and near the entrance is a small shed. The four-pitched roof is made of reed.
The peasant houses in Bucovina are distinguished by their balanced shapes and proportions, harmoniously integrated into the surrounding landscape, reflecting a human spirituality characterized by simplicity, moderation in everything, sincerity and appreciation of the values of life, strength and calmness, vivacity and modesty.
The same harmony, good taste and sense of proportion can be found inside the Solca "House-Museum", where the sobriety of the bed blends perfectly with the harmony of the colors of the checkered quilt, revealing the white sheet with lace at the edges. The fluffy pillows, arranged vertically on the bed, create a pleasant game between horizontal and vertical, the same theme being taken over by the bedspreads that surround the walls of the rooms and cover the benches. The transverse stripes amplify the feeling of tranquility and spaciousness of the rooms, and the painted and decorated household objects, together with the traditional elements such as the dowry chest, the cradle and the festive costumes, contribute to the creation of an intimate and welcoming atmosphere, specific to the traditional dwellings of the peasants represented by this house-museum.
Source: Bucharest-Suceava and in Northern Moldova (Ministry of Tourism, 1977)
Sursa: muzeulbucovinei.ro
