"Vasile Urseanu" Astronomical Observatory
Yacht-shaped early twentieth-century villa with a domed observatory, Zeiss refractor and space exhibition.
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This guide to the Admiral Vasile Urseanu Observatory in Bucharest follows one Zeiss telescope and the naval officer who built a yacht-shaped house around it. It moves from the admiral's death in nineteen twenty-six through the years the building served as a city art gallery, and the people who argued for the instrument's return. Best heard standing in front of the building, looking up at the dome.
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