The “Virtual Museum” project (1998 - 2000) belongs to the Institute for Cultural Memory (CIMEC), in collaboration with 17 museums and museum open air sections benefiting by the financial support of the Romanian Ministry of Culture – The Department of Museums and Collections. The project aims to illustrate circa 1,500 folk architecture monuments that have been preserved up to the present day. These are either museums proper or “in situ” settings, under the care of some ethnography museums or of the local authorities (for example, four monuments that belong to the Romanian Peasant’s Museum, The Peasant household from Enisala, belonging to the Institute for Eco-museum Researches from Tulcea). The database comprises the variety of the architectonic styles represented by the open air museums, by the constructions belonging to different ethnographic areas, the variety of technical installations. They cover almost all the long-time practised occupations and professions from all over the Romanian territory (water and wind mills, golden auriferous stamp heads, whirlpools, iron-, pottery-, wheel wright-, glass-, furrier-, weaving- workshops etc). Museums also preserve social constructions from our villages: schools, churches, mayoralties. The Romanian folk architecture used especially wood, but also half-timber houses, wattles, bricks, stone as a consequence of the geographical areas and of the accessible raw material. The architecture that is represented by our virtual museum is spread in time from the oldest monocelular building now preserved into a museum – the Zapodeni House from the Village Museum: 1760 – up to buildings from the end of the 17th century, the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th century. Many of these buildings bear inscriptions that show the date of their construction, the names of the builders or of the owners, or other events that had great importance within the village community. Thus these were considered worth being recorded (like the inscriptions on the locusts invasions, on fire and floods that had partly destroyed the village, or on the barbarous invasions). Surely these records were usually inscribed on the community buildings. The ornaments represented an interesting aspect in choosing the constructions that have been transferred into museums. That is why many of the museums we show have a rich decoration even the utility ranks (stables, portals, etc.). This is due to the aesthetics that characterised rural architecture from the entire area of our country. Least, but not last, we have to say that the museums comprise monuments of the ethnic minorities living in Romania: Hungarians, Szecklers, Lippovans, Germans, Ukrainians, Turks, Tartars, etc. We hope that our trying to be guides in a virtual traditional architecture museum will give you a complete as possible image of the valuable heritage that the open air museums try to preserve with immense efforts and determine you to visit it on the spot. Because what we were unable to show you was the marvellous and quiet atmosphere that such an ideal “village” can create. We expect that the visitors of the Virtual Museum of Ethnographic Monuments from Romania draw our attention to valuable national monuments that have not yet been integrated into a museum and which deserve to be preserved. Catalina Marin