Located at the entrance of Chisinau, near the City Gates, the Village Museum can be considered an island of revelation and tranquility. It is the perfect place for meditation, a place where you are surprised by the fantastic landscape with a fairy-tale atmosphere. It was created in 1991 as a branch of the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, and in May 1995, it was inaugurated as the "Village Museum" mirroring the Basarabian village of the 17th century. XVIII-XIX. The museum houses monuments of folk architecture. The first monument placed at the museum in 1995 was the windmill in the village of Opaci, district of Causeni, which was destroyed in a fire in 2001 and has not yet been restored. At present, the museum complex boasts the oldest ecclesiastical monument in the Republic of Moldova, the wooden church brought from the village of Hirișeni to be restored and cared for. It was built in 1642 and is one of the tallest wooden churches in the country, standing 27 metres high.