While the museum houses an ethnographic and natural-sciences section, as well as an aquarium displaying Danubian species, the highlight is a scale model of the Roman bridge constructed across the Danube in AD 103 by Greek architect Apollodorus of Damascus on the orders of Emperor Trajan (r AD 98–117). The museum was closed at the time of research but is due to reopen in 2013.
The bridge stood just below the site of the present museum, and the ruins (ruinele podului lui Traian ) of two of its pillars can still be seen towering beside the Danube. In its day it was a tremendous feat of engineering and was more than 1100m in length and 15m wide. Nearby, you'll see scattered pieces of rock and debris that were once part of a Roman colony along the banks of the river.
