Professor Engineer Dimitrie Leonida Technical Museum in Slobozia

A very boring museum. Not interactive at all. At least the tickets were cheap...

The museum is great, but due to lack of funding and personnel (due to reasons not caused by the museum), it could do better.Due to the same reasons, the museum might close, so I recommend visiting while its still there.Entrance is 10 lei for adults. Photography is 10 lei for personal use.Theres no English cards explaining what the models are. I recommend using Google Lens for translation. But dont worry, even in Romanian, 99% of the visitors dont know what theyre reading :D

very nice museum

The Romanian Technical Museum was founded in 1909 by Dimitrie Leonida, inspired by Munchen technical museum, visited during his studies in Charlottenburg Politechnic institute. In 1908, with the help of the first promotions of mechanics and electriciens from his school, the first in Romania, Leonida has collected first pieces for the museum. What was different in Leonida museum was the educational orientation of the museum and also the interactivity.

The place feels really old and poorly maintained. There are no English descriptions and to take photos you must pay 100 lei, which is 10 times the entry fee. The ventilation downstairs is non existent. I would guess that engineering students are the main visitors of this museum.

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You can find there a battery which has been working for 60 years,,,,

Solid ⭐⭐⭐ stars. The good part, there are some original pieces of Romanian ingenuity. Especially from late and brilliant Justin Capră. Then one can find original exponates from industrialisation era, like the National theatre electrical system. Some patented German, French and Swiss machinery from 1800s. The museum is not really big, I think about 1h.Youll find here the first aerodinamic car, motorcycles, engines, relays etc.The bad part, even myself as an engineer eventually got bored. There are a lot of duplicate stuff, undocumented pieces and almost no explanation. No guide.Instead of paying 2€, I would prefer to pay 10€ for a guided walk. And some animated mechanical stuff, especially for magnetism, electricity etc. Thus, not very friendly with kids, so I had to guide them myself 😃A lot of potential, but a lot to improve, compared for example with Deutsches Museum from Munich.

There are interesting things inside the museum, but there is a lot lacking - information about the exhibits, details on the processes described, interactive experiences. It feels like an old shed, untouched for 50 years, on which someone stuck some paper tags. It has a lot of potential, but so far its untapped.

The museum exhibitions are very interesting on its own. The major part are machines and machine models all around generation of electrical energy, but also internal combustion engines, external combustion engines (steamand mining facilities. The other parts are old measurement instruments and sewing machines. The downside of the museum is the lack of any better descriptions (come on, one sentence about each item is not enoughand for me as a non-Romanian speaker the lack of English descriptions. Really, get in contact with a "Liceu Tehnologic" and do a project together with the students and teachers and take care about the descriptions.Also it would be very nice if at least some of the models could be in operation (one can see that at some point they were), this would make the exhibition even more attractive.

😃 Yes, Finaly, re-opened. After long time being closed now we can visit it. Lot of knowledge inside and a history of evolution for some areas like electrical, electromagnetical, thermical, radiological, auto (Persus vehicle!!!etc. Thou... small things may be improved for museum services (maybe some guides, some more explanations, some electronic guide, guidance signs etc). Overall, I HIGHLY RECOMEND IT 👍

An interesting old-fashioned museum full of precise models... But as a laymen I would appreciate more descriptions with explanations 🤷🏻‍♀️🙄.

Some really old pieces which are worth the attention, however many of the exhibits were poorly mislabeled or not described at all. The website is also not updated for the past 10 years or so.Long story short, entry fee is 10 RON so you have no excuse for not visiting it if you’ve used a hammer and a nail at least once in your lifeP.S. if you have the flash turned off and no camera sounds, a modern day smartphone will go undetected 🤡

Has potential but lacks involvement.The building could use some small renovation: a bit o paint here, some new flooring, but this is really not a big problem. My big complaint is that this seems more like a storage for the exhibits, than a museum. Besides some small paper tags that say the name of the exhibit there are no explanation as to what that exhibit is used for, or to explain how it works. The state of some exhibits is bad, they need some care to keep them in good condition, they just look like theyre in the same position for decades . This museum really looks like it needs some pasionate people to take care of it.

Temporary closed (beginning of January 2020with no date of reopening for now.

Closed for renovations, no date for reopening is mentioned.Their site hasnt been updated since 2015...

Gourgeos museum with alot of unique technical inventions gathered from all around the world.Here you can see also novelties.It’s a must to see !

Visited a long time ago. Would be good if not closed for renovations during the summer.

Closed for refurbishment in the middle of high season, w/out any works carried on apparently, after more then two months of closing. Shame for the administrators!

Old place, alot of things to do, a little stuck in time

Cool museum. No captions in English

My preffered museum in Bucharest, but a little obsolete things, and limited to energy harvesting technologies only.

Excellent place to be in, full of history, worth being visited. It is placed in a very beautiful park that also has a great history.

The museum is in an amazing park...try it !

They used to have the very first jetpack on display. Not anymore. :(

The museum has a nice collection of exhibits, but is in a dire need of a refurbishment

A great place to explore Romanian history of technology. For instance, an aerodynamic car which was a concept well ahead of its time. I recently visited a model railroad exhibition; the kids were delighted. The adults even more!

Cool museum, literally you cant aford to not go to.

Loved this place as a child.

Not recommended. No English, no descriptions, no story behind the exposition. Only bare exponates with titles. A lot of them though. Very obsolete.

Unfortunately, an extreme well procured museum, slipped in to wrong hand. Due to some economical hocus-pochus, the museum location (one of the best technical museum that Ive seen in Europe), together with buildings and the technological pieces, that makes the object of that "poor" (nowexhibition, have been transferred in the custody of some corporation, which looks to be more interested of the value of the lands, than the idea of museum it self. More likley, they intend pushing it to ruins, in order to have a reason to demolish it. That place use to be the best place to go when Ive been a child, and the foundation of my education since Im an engineer. It use to be that place where some of the best Romanian examples of ingeniously and master pieces, regarding engineering and technology, could be visited as a bridge over time. This year, Ive visited Romania and I wanted to see this museum, may be the last time, together with my two, 5 and 9 year old boys. It wasnt possible, even it suppose to be open. Reason? Because the main director (I gues now a CEOsays so! It is not clear for me why is this happening with most of Romanian history (not just with this place). The first feeling I have when Ive been looking in to my childs disappointed eyes, it was that someone trying to erase any evidence of this nation capabilities. Because, one of my best point as an engineer, it is that Ive learn there, in Leonida Museum, that one of my own kind, trained in the same school, with the same knowledge, in the same language and all other premises, have managed to do such great job, and there is no reason for me to ever backup. There Ive learned to start it with the first bolt, and to end up with a ballistic racket.

Beautiful museum

The museum has great potential, but currently it is in a very bad shape.

A muzeum founded in the comunist era with exhibits and presentation pretty much unchanged since then. With the exception of temporary exhibitions hosted in one of the muzeul halls, the rest of museum consists in obscure industrial mashinery, which might appeal truly dedicated technical historians or students of ingeneering but lack the kind of context and spectacular that would move the casual visitor. Modern musems engage the visitor with interactive exhibits, abbreviates the explanations and present the context for each exhibit. Also, modern museums cover in addition to past history the present day materials. This museum is stuck in the past and didnt expand its collection for many decades. Its current patrimonium is valuable and still interesting but the museum badly need a refresh. It needs new kind of presentation and new exhibits. Anyway for a 2-3 hours visit its certainly worth to be seen.

Very nice museum bud badly maintained

Nice place to visit. Cheap ticket. Could use some renovation but the state in which it is as common to Romanian museums.Worth a visit, especially with the car and bikes collection on the first floor.A lot about factories, mining and nuclear stuff.

Very interesting museum

Nice museum with great historical mechanical engines. Unfortunately not so informative.

Too bad that they dont have money to restore it

A historical technology place for all :)

Great, if dated, technical museum.There is no signage in anything other than Romanian, so be sure to take Google Translate (which of course you have because your an engineer visiting a technical museum).The second floor contains a large array of models and technical experiments that were used in the past to explain different technical concepts to students.Definitely worth the 10 RON entry fee.

If you like physics and old electronic devices, this is the place to see them.

Great place to visit if you are a fan of the domain.

Unique exhibition. A must see

Not interactive museum. Boring for kids

Great display of old tech

Very nice and unique expozition of steam engines and also with uniqe romanian invention like the first jetpack by Engeener Capra or infinite surce of energy by Engeener Karp.

Incredible place with a lot of interesting pieces of technology worth seeing.

An interesting but not modern museum with very old exhibits.

This museum is this old that it becomes relevant in its own special way. The collection is not up2date nor arranged in a modern way but that doesnt matter. The museum belongs in a museum on its own. You can find how they presented a technical exhibition 50 years ago... Its really fun to walk around in this museum and see the ancient collection.I spend a fun 2 hours.Only downside is (as everywhere in Bucharestyou have to pay an additional tax for taking pictures.