Prior to the establishment of this institute, forensic doctors had no laboratory for necropsies, the bodies were placed in the mortuary rooms of the hospitals, and the specialists were required to move from one hospital to another. At that time, the Institute of Forensic Medicine was one of the most profitable organizations in Europe in terms of technology. Especially the room used for toxicology, where the impact of some chemicals on the body was performed. In addition to this and the autopsy room, the institute also had an amphitheater with 150 places, a library, pathological anatomy laboratories and a museum room. For many years, the institute remained a model even for specialists in Western Europe.

Law no. 149/1930, provided for the maintenance of the life of Professor Mina Minovici as director of the Medical-Legal Institute Professor Mina Minovici of Bucharest "as a consecration of his exceptional merits, as director of this Institute"

Until 1932, at the age of 75, Dr. Mina Minovici even headed the Institute of Legal Medicine, after which one of his brothers, Nicolae, also a doctor, took over the responsibility, until 1938. Mina Minovici ended his activity one year before she died, on April 25, 1933.

On the Net: The National Institute Of Forensic Medicine 'Mina Minovici' website

The new headquarters of the institute was completed in 1989. The current headquarters has four levels and houses several departments and laboratories: clinical forensic medicine (with electrophysiological and radiology research laboratories), forensic investigation, psychiatry, forensic psychology and criminology, forensic identification and serology, forensic toxicology- forensic, thalatology (histopathology, tachytochemistry, histochemistry, microbiology) and forensic genetics. The institute also has a library, a chapel and a museum.

The famous museum that is inside the Medical-Legal Institute is dedicated entirely to forensic doctors and to the students of Medicine and Law (who study forensics). Most of the exhibits date back to the establishment of the morgue and were collected by Professor Mina Minovici. A large number of exhibits are located here, representing different organs, medical anomalies and weapons of crime.

Since 2007, the institute has initiated an ambitious project to recondition the most famous exhibit in the museum of the Institute, the penis of the Romanian bandit Terente. The exhibit entered the Institute's collection in 1927, the year of the bandit's death.