Sights
Architecture of the Historic Center: Calea Victoriei, Piata Palatului, Bulevardul Bratianu, Bulevardul Regina Elisabeta, Strada Lispcani, Piata Romana, Piata Victoriei, Bulevardul Aviatorilor, Soseaua Kiseleff, Bulevardul Dacia, Muzeul Satului (Village Museum), Catedrala Patriarhala, Cismigiu (Park).
Museums
Bucharest has 37 museums, 22 theaters, opera houses and concert halls, 18 art galleries, lots of libraries and bookstores
The National Art Museum in Bucharest offers a collection of 70,000 works divided into two major sections. Its "National Gallery" features the work of major Romanian artists, including Brancusi, Grigorescu, Amman and Andrescu, while its "World Gallery" presents works by Western masters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco, Renoir and Cezanne.
Bucharest's Village Museum of Folk Art, about one square mile in size, is a fascinating outdoor museum that displays more than 300 wooden and stone buildings that reflect the history and diversity of Romania's rural architecture and design from all regions of the country.
The History Museum of Romania, housed in what was once Bucharest's main post office, presents a collection of artifacts adn jewelry that date from prehistoric to modern times.
Among other noteworthy museums in Bucharest are the Romanian Peasant Museum, with its collection of folkloric agricultural tools, household appliances, fabrics and apparel, The Museum of Art Collections, which presents major works by Romanian and foreign artists from a number of private collections, The Natural History Museum, The George Enescu Museum in memory of the famed Romanian composer (1881-1995), and the Astronomic Observatory.
Major museums in Bucharest include: National Museum of Art, Art Collections Museum, Museum of the City if Bucharest, National History Museum, Cotroceni Palace Museum, City Museum of Astronomy, National Military Museum, Minovici Museum of Ancient Western Arts, Village Museum, Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Natural History Museum, Museum of the Romanian Music, History Museum of the Jewish Comunity, Museum of the Armenian Community.
Arts / Shows
National Philharmonic, Opera House, Opereta House, National Drama Theater, Marionette Theater, Nottara Drama Theater, Odeon Drama, Jewish Theater, National Circus House.
Nearby Attractions
Herastrau Park
Baneasa Forest and Zoo
Horse Riding Area in Corbeanca
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