The Vivarium was opened for the visitors on May 18, 2008. in the Botanical Garden of the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History. It presents a permanent exhibition of rare, decorative and exotic birds, fish and reptiles.

The Botanical Garden of the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History was established at the beginning of the 20th century, on the same place of the park garden that had been planted on this territory in the middle of the 19th century was to presenting on a small scale spontaneous flora from all parts of Bessarabia.