Career
Between 1892 and 1944 he was the director of the Bucharest Natural History Museum, which now bears his name. He is also considered to be the first person to modernize the diorama by emphasizing the three-dimensional aspect and first to use dioramas in a museum setting. Additionally, Antipa was a specialist in zoology, ichthyology, ecology and oceanography, and was a university professor
He founded a school of hydrobiology and ichthyology in Romania.
