National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History — Attraction in Buiucani Sector

As a non Russian/Romanian/Moldovian speaker getting around and about in Moldova could be difficult. Luckily for me my spouse is a local and managed to get a hold of the museums English speaking guide, Andrei Fiodorov. An absolutely fantastic and knowledgeable guy. Top it of with a lot of rich history I have never heard of or touched, comming from a western country myself. A trip to the National History Museum of Moldova is a must for anyone with some degree of interest in history. But unless you travel with someone who speaks the native languages I would recommend taking direct contact with

Andrei Fiodorov, +373 621 10 011

(got the permission to post his name and phone number before this post were made). He knows the museum like the back of his pocket, a lot of history in general and of course a lot of the...

Some of the cultural exhibits are interesting, but the staff are extremely irritable and rude. I asked for the bathroom, was given annoyed and vague answers, and when I asked if there was a place to get paper, the lady yelled at me about where I’m from and told me that the bathroom was “not my business.” I arrived with nearly an hour before closing but the staff followed me nearly every room to remind me about the time, and did not like that I wanted to see the place at my pace in an order I enjoyed, and literally yelled at me for visiting the museum incorrectly. With 30 min still left they started making a big show of turning off the room lights after each place I visited. I’ve never felt so unwanted or uncomfortable in a museum. If you visit just come super early and don’t interact with...

Great museum. I was in Moldova in 1994. The people were nice, but there was a strong mafia presence in the capital. Our small group of men from the UK was intimidated by the mafia a few times (such as walking past me and deliberately knocking into me or taking my beer in front of me in a restaurant while the whole restaurant laughed. It was very funny.) and warned by the local women to leave or else the mafia would hurt us. We left. I had a Moldovan colleague at work here in the UK in 2020 and he said the situation has not improved for the population of Moldova. I wish the people of Moldova, apart from the mafia and the corrupt government, all the best...