The Victor Babeș Memorial Museum

• 310 m from The National Museum of Maps and Old Books

Victor Babeș died in 1926, yet the Institute of Bacteriology he founded in Bucharest still bears his name today, as does the genus of parasites he discovered — Babesia — present in every microbiology textbook in the world. The world's first bacteriology treatise, written by him in 1885 alongside the French scientist Victor André Cornil, is on displ...

The Zambaccian Museum

• 455 m from The National Museum of Maps and Old Books

The Zambaccian Museum is one of those places Bucharest keeps quietly to itself, far from the busier tourist trails. Tucked into a calm corner of the Dorobanți neighborhood, it makes no grand announcement from the outside — and that's precisely what amplifies the effect once you step in.
The house was built specifically in the 1940s to hold the coll...

The Perfume Museum

• 615 m from The National Museum of Maps and Old Books

Inside the Beautik perfumery on Calea Dorobanților, there is a corner of Bucharest that few people know about and even fewer forget after seeing it. The Perfume Museum impresses differently than you might expect — through density, through stories, through the weight of time concentrated in a few dozen square metres. Over 3,000 perfume bottles, each...

National Geological Museum — Bucharest

• 660 m from The National Museum of Maps and Old Books

The building on Kiseleff Boulevard no. 2 is worth a stop before you even step inside: built in the early 20th century in neo-Brâncovenesc style, it is a listed architectural monument in its own right. Inside, three floors and 14 rooms house around 7,700 exhibits — fluorescent minerals, crystals, rocks over a billion years old, fossils, drill cores...

The Frederic and Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck Art Museum

• 730 m from The National Museum of Maps and Old Books

On Strada Vasile Alecsandri nr. 16, in a quiet neighbourhood in the northern part of Bucharest, sits one of the most personal art collections in the city. The Frederic and Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck Art Museum was not built around institutional acquisitions or incidental donations — it is the actual house in which the two artists lived and worked, tran...

The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant

• 745 m from The National Museum of Maps and Old Books

One of the most important ethnography museums in Europe, with a collection of over 155,000 objects — folk costumes, ceramics, glass icons, tools, textiles, and everyday household items from all Romanian provinces. The neo-Romanian style building is itself a historic landmark.
The permanent exhibition was reopened in April 2025 following restoration...

The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (MȚR)

• 790 m from The National Museum of Maps and Old Books

The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (MȚR) is one of the most important cultural institutions in Romania dedicated to traditional rural life. Housed in a heritage building in Neo-Romanian architectural style, the museum features an impressive collection of authentic artifacts: from folk costumes and painted icons to tools, furniture, and eve...

Grigore Antipa Museum

• 795 m from The National Museum of Maps and Old Books

There isn't a Bucharest resident you ask about the capital's museums who doesn't mention the Grigore Antipa Museum. And with good reason: it is one of the most prestigious museums in Romania and Eastern Europe, currently housing over 2 million exhibits.

Founded in 1834 and named after the famous Romanian biologist Grigore Antipa, the museum near H...

“Amiral Vasile Urseanu” Astronomical Observatory

• 980 m from The National Museum of Maps and Old Books

The “Amiral Vasile Urseanu” Astronomical Observatory, located at 21 Lascăr Catargiu Boulevard, Sector 1, is the only observatory in Bucharest permanently open to the public. Built with a classical dome and equipped with the original Zeiss telescope, it offers both historical exhibitions and real stargazing experiences. The atmosphere here is not ov...

George Severeanu Museum

• 1.1 km from The National Museum of Maps and Old Books

Tucked away on Strada Henri Coandă nr. 26, in Sector 1, the George Severeanu Museum is one of Bucharest's most discreet and fascinating museums. Housed in an elegant eclectic building dating back to around 1860 — with oval windows, decorative garlands and neo-baroque influences — the museum was once the residence of radiologist George Severeanu, th...