The Szekler wooden houses and gates represent a special part of the
museum’s collection. Their particularity is given by the fact that they
cannot be kept in stock, and they cannot be handled as monuments with
certain functions. That is why their retaining and maintenance causes
the Museum great worry. t was at the end of the 19th century when the ethnographers realised
that the building techniques and constructional particularities of the
Szekler wooden houses and gates were dying out. The industrialization
started to make its presence felt in the rural region as well, and
therefore the rural population stopped building its traditional houses
in the traditional way. The imitation of the city houses started to gain
ground in the villages as well, and the neglected, old houses became
the symbol of misery and poorness in the eyes of the rural population.