"Ion Borcea" Natural Sciences Museum Complex

The first museum of natural sciences in Bacău was established in 1961, as a department of the Bacău County Museum, and after 1990, as a distinct county museum. A new building for the museum was built in the "Cancicov" Park from 1991 to November 2005 when it was finally opened. The former building of the museum, a historic monument, dates from 1933, and at first functioned as a private home. In 1988 the museum moved in. The collection includes about 195.500 items of ornithology, geobotany, palaeontology, herpetology, entomology, and aquarium.