The National Military Museum doubles nicely as a Romanian history museum, with its chronological rundown of how the country defended itself. In the museum entrance, note the 1988 communist mural that celebrates the Palace of Parliament (painted just a year before the revolution). In back is a hangar with early aviator Aurel Vlaicu’s historic 1911 plane.
National Military Museum
Bucharest
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