Bucharest Museums

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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Bucharest’s Village Museum: Good, but much better when there’s a fair on.

by Craig Turp October 28, 2009 Bucharest

 On Saturday we went to Bucharest’s Village Museum, one of those few sights in the capital that we can safely label Essential without looking stupid. We’ve always liked it, though we have a few reservations (mainly the fact that it presents a somewhat false idyll: most Romanian villages are simply not like this). Anyway, this [...]

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