The overview of the Bucovina Village Museum reflects the organization and complex activity of the traditional village, the vernacular architecture of the households and community buildings, the technical installations that illustrate the occupations, trades and crafts of the area, the way of life of the inhabitants of Bucovina. Along with the households consisting of houses and outbuildings, located along the streets, in the heart of the village, as the polarizing center of the community's life, there is the church and the customs bell tower, the Șaru Dornei tavern and the Securiceni school.
The hydraulic technical installations are located on the stream valley that runs through the museum: the Mănăstirea Humorului mill, the sumane mill, the wool processing shed. Trades and crafts are represented in workshops equipped with the specific inventory of each craft, where traditional work techniques can be demonstrated and learned, being used as school workshops for children or tourists.
The organization of the interiors constitutes a special ethnographic exhibition that respects the zonal particularities of the popular architecture objectives. Ovens, stoves can be found in the museum in a variety of types; traditional furniture, interior textiles, popular wear pieces complete the image of traditional Bucovina civilization.
Unique to the museum is the depiction of the spiritual life of the peasant by marking rites of passage, birth and burial, as well as the rite of integration that is the wedding.
The interest that this type of museum reveals is based on several defining elements: the exposure in a natural environment, the authenticity and originality of the exhibits, the different construction techniques and specific decorative elements with symbolic value, the recreation of a traditional way of life, the value of document for educational purposes, the exhibition of the ethnographic collections as close as possible to the usefulness of the object in context and not only as a museum object, allows the visitor to understand and value the traditions of Bucovina.