- Models show typical Banat houses of the 18th and 19th centuries. Building materials: earth, clay, straw, chaff, reeds and wood.
- Houses had two rooms (for guests and daily life), a kitchen and a hallway.Although an entrance existed facing the street, people usually entered from the yard where daily life unfolded.
- Fertile land → developed crop farming, mostly wheat and corn.
- Pastoral Banat → sheep, cattle and pig breeding.
- Shepherd’s cloaks with rich decorations were high-value handmade items.
- Developed crafts: cooperage, blacksmithing, pottery, cloak-making, shoemaking.
- Suvače: “dry mills” powered by horses, not water.
- The clay bass (begeš): a pot used as a resonator; sound is made by a wet reed/stick pulled through a skin; played at celebrations.
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