“Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, Natural history museum in central Bucharest, Romania
The Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History is a historic building with natural history exhibits in central Bucharest. The exhibition spreads across three floors and displays more than two million specimens of invertebrates, vertebrates, and fossils.
Prince Alexandru Ghica established the collection in 1834 and gave it the first impulse. In 1908 the institution moved to the current building on Șoseaua Kiseleff, where it rapidly gained importance under Antipa.
The name honors zoologist Grigore Antipa, who transformed the collection from a small archive into a major research facility. School groups gather today in the main exhibition hall to examine display cases containing animals from every continent.
The building opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 20:00 and sits at Șoseaua Kiseleff 1. Guided tours in several languages can be booked on site, and the exhibition spreads over multiple floors.
The dioramas on the upper floor present complete habitats with preserved animals in reconstructed surroundings, including underwater scenes from the Black Sea. Some of these displays date back to before World War II and are considered museum rarities.
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