Grigore Antipa Museum of National History

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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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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Reports of the reopening of Bucharest’s Grigore Antipa Museum of Natural History were premature

by Craig Turp January 10, 2011 Bucharest

 We got a wonderful, unexpected Christmas present a fortnight ago, when we saw this article on the website of Romanian daily newspaper Gandul, announcing with much fanfare that Bucharest’s Grigore Antipa Museum of Natural History would soon, finally, be reopening its doors after a long and expensive refit. (Similar articles have appeared before, like this [...]

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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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