The National Museum of Old Maps and Books is one of Bucharests more charming small museums. Housed in a villa north of the centre, it gathers old maps, atlases, engravings, globes, and book material that show how Romanian lands and the wider world were imagined on paper.
It rewards slow looking. The rooms are not huge, but the subject is rich, especially if you enjoy cartography, border changes, and the decorative confidence of old printed maps.