History Museum

The beautiful and grand neo-classical exterior hides a museum that is in urgent need of restauration and revitalisation. Once inside, you'll find exhibits - all poorly presented - that go into detail about the country's history over the past two million or so years. Plenty of skeletons, jewellery, weapons and tools to see, but all arranged in a rather confusing manner. There are also ancient imports from Greece and Rome are placed in context by exhibitions on the empires that crafted them, and separate halls are devoted to the revolutions of 1821 and 1848. The best exhibits are downstairs: the Lapidarium features a plastercast of Trajan's column (perhaps the world's first cartoon history). Admission is 3 lei noi; 1.50 lei noi for students; 1 leu nou for children and you may well find yourself the only visitor.