Museum
Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History
Natural history museum famed for pioneering wildlife dioramas and a rare Deinotherium skeleton.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History in Bucharest follows the zoologist who ran it for half a century and turned a collection of specimens into a crowd-pulling spectacle. It opens on a puzzle about the early crowds, then takes in the royal opening of nineteen-oh-eight, the landscapes Antipa staged behind the glass, and the carving on the pediment outside. A Berlin museum director turns up too, with an opinion about whose hands made the scenes.
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