National Museum of Romanian History
National history museum whose treasury holds ancient gold, including bird-shaped brooches.
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This guide to the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest follows the Pietroasele treasure, the late Roman era gold hoard Romanians nickname the Hen with the Golden Chicks. It begins on a winter night in eighteen seventy-five, when a former seminarian with an acrobat's knack slipped into the Senate's rooms in the old University palace. Along the way you'll meet the quarrymen who dug the hoard up and the eagle that crowns its greatest brooch. Best heard standing at the case in the Treasury room.
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