The cultural gathering represented in Oltenia (and also at national level) a mean of extracurricular education, frequently used by cultural societies, associations and institutions, supported by state’s authorities, with the purpose of transmitting the complete general culture or, by case, to form a minimal culture within the ranks of the population. Starting from the idea that popular education was a concept and a pre-war solution, which in the interwar period knew qualitative changes we propose to approach the subject from two perspectives. The first treats the resurrection of the cultural movement in the first part of the Romanian interwar period and highlights the continuation of the pre-war tradition of transmitting the culture within the ranks of the population thru cultural societies and institutions. In this phase, the cultural gatherings have, in general, a similar typology in the urban or rural environment. The second perspective is focused on the analysis of village cultural gatherings in the peak period of movement of cultural houses (the 30s of the XXth century), because, in the urban area, the typology of the gatherings did not change very much compare with the previous period. On the other hand, in the rural area, the implementations of the complex strategy of modernisation of the villages thru the institution of the cultural house, conceived by Dimitrie Gusti and the Sociologic School from Bucharest and enforced into practice by the “Prince Carol” Royal Cultural Foundation, determined a typological diversity of the cultural gatherings, corresponding the specific realities and necessities of rural population. The subject is constructed through the analysis, mainly, of documentary materials from primary sources like documents from local archives and secondary source like scientific and cultural journals of the time, reports of some cultural associations etc., aiming the realisation of an overview of the cultural gathering in Oltenia.