Antipa National Museum of Natural History

          Antipa National Museum of Natural History, founded in 1834, is one of the most important Bucharest museums and one of the first natural history museums established in the world. It has collections from zoology, paleontology, geology and ethnography, including the unique and controversial 15 feet high skeletons of Deinotherium Gigantissimus. Antipa Museum has a beautiful butterfly collection, as well as an exhibition of stuffed birds. Grigore Antipa was a noted Romanian naturalist and he ran the museum for almost five decades until his death in 1944.

 


          Address: Sos. Kiseleff 1, Bucharest

          Tel.: (+4) 021 312.88.26, Fax: (+4) 021 312.88.63

          Website: www.antipa.ro

          Opening hours: Wednesday to Friday 10.00am - 7.00 pm Saturday and Sunday 10.00 am- 8.00 pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday




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