Museum sights in Chişinău
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National Archaeology & History Museum
The National Archaeology & History Museum is the granddaddy of Chişinău's museums, and well worth visiting. It has archaeological artefacts from Orheiul Vechi including Golden Horde coins, Soviet-era weaponry and a huge WWII diorama on the 1st floor, where you can speak to a man who spent 12 years as a political prisoner at a worker's camp in desolate Vorkuta in northern Siberia.
A statue of Lupoaica Romei (the wolf of Rome) and the abandoned children Romulus and Remus stands in front of the museum. To Moldovans, this is a symbol of their Latin ancestry.
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Pushkin Museum
Several blocks northeast of the central parks is the Pushkin Museum, housed in a cottage where Russian poet Alexandr Pushkin (1799-1837) spent an exiled three years between 1820 and 1823. It was here that he wrote The Prisoner of the Caucacus and other classics - that is, when he wasn't involved in the amorous intrigues, hard drinking and occasional violence of his social circles in what was then a rough-around-the-edges distant outpost of the Russian empire.
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Chişinău History Museum
Near the university is the Chişinău History Museum. It's a treat mainly for the old water tower (1892) it's housed in. The museum was inexplicably closed at the time of writing. This is the main meeting place for the Chişinău branch of the notorious Hash House Harriers. Their bimonthly runs and drink-fests to oblivion start here.
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National Ethnographic and Nature Museum
The National Ethnographic and Nature Museum has some pop art, lots of stuffed animals and exhibits covering the sciences of geology, botany and zoology. The highlight is a life-size reconstruction of a mammal skeleton that was discovered in the Rezina region in 1966. A few blocks south of here is the state university.
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Open-Air Military Exhibition
A small open-air military exhibition displays Soviet-made tanks, fighter planes and other military toys inherited by Moldova's armed forces. Kids like to swing from the plane wings and tank guns.
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Muzeul de Arte Plastice
The Muzeul de Arte Plastice has an interesting collection of contemporary European (mostly Romanian and Moldovan) art, folk art, icons and medieval knick-knacks.
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