Natural history museum Antipa reopens September 17

Newsroom 06/09/2011 | 11:45

The national natural history museum Grigore Antipa announced it would reopen its permanent exhibition starting September 17. The museum closed for renovation works in January 2009 and EUR 13 million has been invested in its modernization since.

Info touch screens, 3D screenings, constellation projections, reorganizations of the over two million exhibited items are all only a part of the Natural History Museum’s facelift. The money for the renovation came from a loan taken out by the Ministry of Culture from the Council of Europe Development Bank and state funds, plus an estimated EUR 600,000 from structural funds.

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.