Natural Sciences Museum of Piatra Neamt

The birth certificate of the current museum was signed on September 1st, 1960, when was founded the Natural Sciences Department, in the Museum of Archaeology of Piatra Neamt, in the property donated by Iulian Antonescu on Petru Rares Street, no.26.

But, on November 15th, 1969, after a hard work of gathering and classification of the collections, organizing the fund of pieces and exhibits, on the dioramas and bio-groups, takes place the opening to the great public of the permanent exhibition of the Natural Sciences Museum of Piatra Neamt.

The exhibition is a monographic presentation of the entire territory of Neamț County from geological, palaeontological, ecological, floristic and faunistic point of view. Currently, the Museum has approximately 40,000 pieces from the collections of fauna and a Fund of over 10,000 sheets of Herbarium from the collections of flora. Also, in the Museum is a collection of fossil fishes, from the Oligocene, with numerous holotypes, over 600 fossils specimen of which 31 are new species, unique in the world, but also rare exhibits from geology, fauna and flora of the Neamt Mountains, from the Mesozoic and Neozoic era. Palaeoichtyofauna collection, representing a significant source of information at the fingertips of researchers, speaking about Paratethys paleoechologia from the Oligocene time, is the pride of the Piatra Neamț Museum, joining collections in the museums of the Moscow science, Brno, Vienna, Warsaw and