Bucharest Museums

The Romanian National Technical Museum: Home of the Jetpack

by Craig Turp October 25, 2011 Bucharest

 If, like us, you have always wanted to see a real life Auto-Gamma Scintillation Spectometre, then the Dimitrie Leonida Romanian National Technical Museum in Parcul Carol is the place for you. The National Technical Museum is situated in the last remaining pavilion built for the Great Romanian Exposition of 1906, organised at the behest of [...]

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Finally! Bucharest’s Grigore Antipa Museum reopens. It was worth the wait

by Craig Turp September 15, 2011 Bucharest

 After a refit lasting over three years and costing €14 million, Bucharest’s Grigore Antipa Museum of Natural History finally reopened today. (Actually, it opened for the press today: the public can visit as of Saturday, from when the museum will be open 10:00-20:00, Tue-Sun. It will be closed Mondays). A year late (see this post [...]

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Sightseeing in Bucharest: What should be labelled essential?

by Craig Turp August 16, 2011 Bucharest

 As part of what will be a fairly serious overhaul and rewrite of the What to See section in Bucharest In Your Pocket, we are currently reconsidering what should be labelled as ‘Essential Bucharest.’ Right now, these are currently our ‘Essential Bucharest‘ picks: Arc de Triumf Bellu Cemetery Casa Poporului George Enescu Museum Grigore Antipa [...]

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Giraffes at Universitate

by Craig Turp June 23, 2011 Bucharest

 Sitting in the back of a taxi driving past Piata Universitatii this morning, we couldn’t help but notice that there is now a large fibreglass giraffe’s head on the roundabout in the middle of the square. Why? Well, the why only becomes apparent when you head down into the Piata Universitatii underpass. For there will [...]

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Rediscover Bucharest: Calea Victoriei

by Craig Turp March 23, 2011 Bucharest

 As part of our One Man/One City Guide campaign to Rediscover Bucharest, we yesterday walked the full length of Calea Victoriei, that most historic of all Bucharest’s streets. It was a surprisingly rewarding experience, best done – we think – from north to south, from Piata Victoriei down to the river. On a fresh morning [...]

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Note to people attending Museum Night (Noaptea Muzeelor): Museums are also open at other times

by Craig Turp May 14, 2010 Bucharest

 Tomorrow night is Noaptea Muzeelor (Museum Night) in Bucharest. We’ve never really known what to make of Museum Nights (when museums are open long into the night, often until the early hours of the next morning). After all, it’s up to a museum if it wants to stay open all night: it’s nothing to do [...]

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Bad News Day

by Craig Turp January 11, 2010 Bucharest

 Two snippets of information reach us today, neither of which is much good… Firstly, after just six months, Aer Lingus is closing its Bucharest – London Gatwick route as part of a wider set of cutbacks in routes served from Gatwick (eleven routes in all are being cut). No real surprise, as whenever we flew [...]

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