Attractions

Museums

"Grigore Antipa" Natural History Museum.
Address: Sos. Kiselef nr. 1. Tel : 312-8826.
Program: opened daily between 10:00-18:00; closed on Mondays.
Is one of the first museums of natural history in the world and presents 300.000 unique pieces.

Cotroceni National Museum:
Address: Bd.Geniului nr. 1. Tel: 221-1200.
Program: opened daily between 9:00-15:30; closed on Mondays.
The Cotroceni museum presents the medieval Cotroceni church atmosphere and that of the previous Royal Court of Ferdinand King and is a remarkable historic and architectural monument.

"George Enescu" Museum:
Address: Calea Victoriei nr. 141. Tel: 659-6365.
Program: opened daily between 10:00-17:00; closed on Mondays.
Gather collections illustrating the history of music and documents about the famous Romanian musician, George Enescu.

Village Museum:
Address: Sos. Kiseleff 28-30. Tel: 222-9110.
Program: opened daily between 10:00-18:00. closed on Mondays.
Is one of the world most valuable ethnographical museums and was created by the sociologist Dimitrie Gusti in 1936. The museum in open air is spread on about 30 hectares and comprises over 70 houses, 99 outbuildings, churches and traditional technique (water and wind mills, oil pressing machine etc) from areas of the entire country.

The Astronomic Observer: Lascar Catargiu 21. Tel 310-2563. contains an astronomic and a science fiction club.

National Art Museum:
Address: Calea Victoriei 49-53. Tel: 314-8119.
Contains a large European art collection (over 1 000 000 exhibits) and numerous Romanian and foreign masterpieces. The Museum is situated in the building of the former Royal Palace to which was given this destination after the Second World War.

Art Collection Museum.
Address: Calea Victoriei 111. Tel: 350-6132.
Contains exhibits belonging to all artistic styles, including the famous on glass popular icons. These collections are here as a result of donations to the museum from the persons found of art.


Monuments

Triumphal Arch
Build initially by wood in 1922 and after that, between the years 1935-1936, was rebuild by reinforced concrete and granite. The architect by whose plans was realized the construction is Petre Antonescu. The Monument is dedicated to the Romania armies' fights during the First World War.

National Military Circle
Build in 1912 on the same place where was before the Monastery of Saridar. It contains conference halls, reception parlor, a library and a lending library.

Cotroceni Palace
Build in 1893 according to the plans of the French Achitect Paul Gotterea serving as permanent residence of Ferdinand Prince. At present is the residence of Romania Presidency. The Museum gathers old Romanian art collections, European decorative art etc

Bucuresti University
Was founded in July 1864 and its first Rector was Gheorghe Costa Foru. The Revolution of December 1989 made Piata Universitatii the symbol of liberty.

Romanian Athenaeum
The funds for the construction of athenaeum were raised by public collection. Build in 1888, famous names of Romanian music performed on the stage at Athenaeum: George Enescu, Dinu Lipatti, Maurice Ravel, David Oistrach, Yehudi Menuhin.

Romanian National Opera
Was build in 1953. Famous interprets performed on the Romanian Opera stage: Elena Teodorini, Florica Cristoforeanu etc.

Parks

Botanical Garden
The present Botanical Garden was realized starting with 1884. It has a surface of 17.5 ha and comprises over 10000 species and plants. Here is the Botanical Institute and the Botanical Museum.

Cismigiu Garden
Situated in the centre of Bucharest, was opened on 22nd of March 1860. The parks plans were realized by the Viennese architect F. W Meyer. The name of the garden comes from the name of the position of the person that was taking care of all the pumps in the city: cismigiu. It has terraces, restaurants and a lake where you can take rides by boat.

Herastrau Park
Situated in the north of Bucharest, on the borders of the Herastrau Lake, gives varied possibilities to spend your free time (restaurants, terraces, entertainment parks, boat or ship rides on the lake, sports grounds)