• Deinotherium in the central hall, visible from the entrance, so even a short visit starts with the museum's most prized specimen
• Free in school holidays for under-18s, and for preschoolers all year; otherwise pupils pay 8 lei with a student ID
• Closed on Mondays all year, and the last visitors go in an hour before closing

Romania's national natural history museum, in a building opened in 1908, is laid out as walk-through dioramas of habitats from the Black Sea and the Danube Delta to Carpathian forests, where a stag is cornered by wolves. The central hall holds a Deinotherium gigantissimum skeleton over 4 meters tall, a giant relative of today's elephants. Temporary shows, from live reptiles to live butterflies, rotate through.