Petrești Swabian Museum

The Swabian Museum in Petrești is housed in a house built in 1881 by a Swabian family. The Swabians were a population of German origin that was colonized in several waves in Romanian space, starting in 1712. The building belonged to a wealthier person, being built so that two generations could live in it simultaneously: the young people lived in the rooms facing the street, and the parents lived in the back rooms. It is a wagon-type house, with a porch along its entire length, and in the yard there are numerous sheds, outbuildings and a barn with two gates.

The Swabian Museum in Petrești was opened in 1993, and its collection exhibits 220 objects, mostly donated by the Swabian locals: pieces of the Swabian folk costume, flowered vases, pieces of furniture, religious icons and statuettes, household tools, paintings, woven clothes. In the yard behind the yard there are carriages, seed drills, a wagon with a wheelbarrow with which the Swabians traveled from Budapest to Petrești and to 22 other villages around, as well as other objects intended for living and working in the countryside.