National Museum of History of Moldova

The country's leading history museum occupies a dignified early twentieth-century building in central Chisinau, marked outside by a bronze she-wolf sculpture recalling the region's Roman heritage. Inside, galleries trace the land's past from antiquity through medieval principalities to the modern era, with archaeology, coins, weapons, costumes and a large battle diorama. The collection helps visitors follow the layered history of a country long between competing empires.