The Aquarium
The U.A.S.V.M. Aquarium is a research space for native and exotic fish species, as well as a tourist attraction. This attraction consists of a water tank of 20 cubical meters (one of the largest in our country that belongs to Veterinary Medicine universities) and 14 other 300 liter tanks. These water tanks have automatic water recycling and oxygenation system.
In these tanks live over 30 fish species and turtles from Romanian waters (carp, sheatfish, zander, pike, perch, bream, crucian etc.), as well as from other meridians (piranha, bioccelate, scalar fish, molly fish, xypho, platy, guppy, golden crucian, and Indian catfish).
The Botanical Museum
The Botanical Museum was opened in 2002 under the U.A.S.V.M. and hosts the scientific herbarium of 40,000 sheets, a rich collection of medicine from various medicinal herbs, a collection of seeds from cultivated species and wild flora, casts, herbariums, books and old manuscripts that belonged to the teachers who held courses of botanic sciences. The museum also includes photos, exhibition pieces with dendrology frames, plants from different vegetation areas and a vast bibliographic material.
The Museum of Parasitology
The Museum of Parasitology includes pieces that are exhibited in cabinets. They are grouped according to 3 categories:
1. systematically, in which the parasites are structured on classes and families – protozoa, helmints, and parasitic arthropods;
2. according to host species: parasites and parasitized organs in bovines, sheep and goats, horses, swine, carnivores, rodents, and birds;
3. ecologic system, with adequate biotypes: diheteroxen parasites, triheteroxen parasites, with intermediary and final hosts; monoxen, terrestrial, aquatic, etc.
Entry fee:
The aquarium: adults: 3 RON, students: 2 RON, biologists, disabled: free
The Botanical Museum: free
Schedule
The Aquarium: Monday – Friday from 10.00 to 16.00, Saturday, Sunday from 10.00 to 14.00 The Botanical Museum: Monday – Friday from 8.00 to 15.00. We recommend scheduling visits in advance. Saturday, Sunday: closed
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