Museum of Natural Sciences

The building, a historical monument registered in the Historical Monuments List in 2010, code BT-11-m-B-01970 with the name <Former Prefecture, Today Museum of Natural Sciences> dates from the end of the sec. XIX (1887). The building was built in 1878 by a French architect to the Administrative Palace of the Prefecture of the former county of Dorohoi, but its construction was completed only in 1887. It has 46 rooms distributed in the basement, ground floor and floor . The edifice has a central dome and two lateral turrets. The roof, originally made of sandstone (slate), is currently replaced by galvanized sheet scales (2003-2004). In 1953, the museum recorded 975 cultural objects in the field of archeology, history, ethnography, art, the natural sciences, and a number of 148 documents that were subsequently handed over to the archives. In 1955, when the Botosani Rayon Museum was established, the museum in Dorohoi recorded a total of 1,173 pieces. The museum currently has 21 exhibition halls (12 rooms with porcelain glassware and 9 halls with natural history exhibits), 1 hall for temporary exhibitions and other activities, offices, warehouses and a conservation and restoration laboratory. Contemporary art galleries sum up 651 glass-porcelain objects made at the former glass factory in the city under the auspices of a creative camp between 1985-1988, using the raw sand from Hudesti-Miorcani as raw material. The heritage of natural history sums up 285,151 items of scientific importance from all systematic groups: fossils, rocks, plants, mollusks, corals, crustaceans, echinoderms, insects, fish, batracians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Among the most important acquisitions are the entomological collection Prof. Ioan Nemes, a collection that has been cataloged as one of the first in the country from the scientific point of view and the number of copies collected by a single collector, the exotic pharmacist collection Weber Wilhelm, the collection of birds Exotic (Zair-Africa) Professor Rang Catalin, etc. The museum exchanges publications with museums from the country and abroad, which has led to a substantial improvement of the specialized literature, the museum library having over 6,000 volumes.