Bucharest’s national history museum Antipa attracts 5,700 visitors in re-opening weekend

Newsroom 20/09/2011 | 14:59

The Natural History museum Grigore Antipa in Bucharest has attracted 5706 visitors in its first re-opening weekend. The museum had been closed for the past two and a half years for renovation works.

According to statistics from the museum, out of the total number of visitors 2859 were adults, 1338 students, 637 pensioners and university students, and 872 free visitors. The institution’s revenues from tickets sales for the two weekend days stood at RON 70,180 (around EUR 16,700).

The Antipa museum is located on Pavel Kiseleff Boulevard, no. 1. The museum originates in the National Museum of Natural History and Antiquities of Bucharest, founded on the 3rd of November 1834 by the Prince Alexandru Ghica. The Natural History Museum Museum has a rich and diversified patrimony, amounting to almost 2 million specimens (some of them of microscopic size), grouped in over 130 types of collections.

 

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