The Village Museum, founded by Royal Decree in 1936, covers 15 hectares and shows traditional houses, farmhouses, churches, water mills and roadside crosses from all over Romania. It is a good approach to the country for the first time visitor of Romania, even though a few houses burnt down in a fire in 2002. The museum is located on Kiseleff Street 28-30 and it is open 09.00-18.00 daily.

The Village Museum lies north of the city centre, being located in a nice park (in Herăstrău Park, Bucharest’s widest park); it is reachable by bus from Romană Square (#131, 331). GPS - N44 28.346 E26 04.596

The Peasant Museum is devoted to the Romanian peasant’s habits, works, and art sense. It contains over 90,000 exhibits of folk art, from ceramics and icons to funerary monuments and outfits. One of the most interesting exhibits is "the house in the house", as they have re-created an old traditional house inside the museum. The building hosting it was designed by Architect Ghika-Budești and it raised in 1912-1941. It was built in Neo-Romanian style, with obvious Brâncoveanu elements. Its style harmoniously blends traditional feudal architecture elements from Wallachia and Moldavia.

To the back of the museum there is a wooden church and a relaxing terrace. The institution was designed “the best European Museum of the Year” in 1996 by the European Council. The museum also hosts one of the best shops in the city selling traditional items and souvenirs; especially the pottery and the glass painted icons are excellent here. It is open daily 10.00-18.00, closed on Mondays. GPS - N44 27.279 E26 05.063

The Geology Museum is hosted in the building of the Romanian Geology Institute, set in 1906 in Neo-Brâncoveanu style and designed by Architect Victor Ștefănescu. The museum was opened in 1990 and it hosts over 80,000 samples of minerals, rocks and plant / animal fossils, in his 22 halls. There are also reconstitutions of large vertebrates discovered in geological strata across Romania, including a few dinosaurs in natural size, of the ones discovered around Hațeg. It is one of the largest collections of its kind in South-Eastern Europe.

The museum is arranged like a book, according to the main domains of Geology. There are different itineraries through the museum, according to your time and particular interest.

The building itself can be a reason to visit the museum. It is open daily, 10.00-18.00.

GPS - N44 27.285 E26 05.090

Antipa Museum. The Neoclassical building hosting the Natural History Museum was raised in 1904-1906. The natural history museum idea emerged in 1836 and it was brought around by princes Alexandru and Grigore Ghica; an exhibition was temporarily hosted in a highschool and then moved to the University. The current building was especially set to host the museum. One of the main pieces of the exhibition is an excellently preserved skeleton of a Miocene elephant, the Deinotherium gigantissimum (that lived some 10 million years ago). Following a thorough restoration and under the ‘Nature Meets Technology’ logo, the museum was entirely reorganized, with a more appealing, if not high tech approach that might just stir the child in you. To the back of the building there is a pleasant terrace and an indoors museum cafe with the expected twist. GPS - N44 27.273 E26 05.063