National museum of maps and ancient books
Art Deco villa holding over a thousand antique maps, globes and engravings from four centuries.
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This guide to the National Museum of Maps and Old Books in Bucharest follows Adrian Năstase, the Romanian prime minister whose family gave the museum its main collection. It moves from the Art Deco villa of an Armenian merchant to a presidential race in two thousand four and the courtrooms that followed. In between, you'll stand among Renaissance globes, moon maps and a sixteenth-century Transylvania.
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