The one hundred year old house was inhabited by the Petrovanu family, who donated part of it to the Museum of Natural Sciences (four rooms and one hall). The collection is made up of period furniture, photocopies, documents, books belonging to the Romanian naturalist Ion Borcea (1879 - 1936) and related to his studies on fish the biocenoza in the Black Sea. The first memorial exhibition opened in 1966, and in 1974 it was moved to a larger premises. The building was damaged during the 1977 and 1990 earthquakes, and restored between 1991 and 1992.
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