Sights in Region South-Western

The Museum of History and Ethnography in the town of Gotse Delchev is housed in an old building (dating back to 1877), designed in an unique for the region Baroque style. The construction has typical wood-carved ceilings and doors made by local master carvers from the Debar carving school.  The ...

The Regional Historical Museum in Pernik was established in 1953. It has a rich collection of historical objects from the Middle Ages and ethnographic materials related to the traditional Bulgarian culture. The Pernik museum has following collections: - prehistoric pottery - urban lifestyle in the ...

The Regional Historical Museum of Kyustendil is an inheritor of opened in 1897 school-museum to the town`s Pedagogical school which in 1908 became a part of the local community center "Bratstvo". Since 1992 it is called "Academician Jordan Ivanov", after the name of the great Bulgarian scholar....

The National Historical museum in Sofia was founded in 1973. Since 1979 the Museum was hosted  in the building of the Courts of Justice but in 2000 it was moved into the bilding of Residence "Boyana" (quarter of Boyna, Sofia).The museum has 32 halls and is one of the largest history mu...

Art Gallery "Vladimir Dimitrov-The Master" in Kyustendil is included in the list of The hundred tourist sites of Bulgaria.It was established in 1944 in the Ahmed Bey mosque. The Initiative was of Dragan Lozenski, Cyril Tsonev and Dr. Georgi Efremov. The base of the galley were  50 works o...

The Historical Museum in Samokov is located in the real center of the town. It was created in the beginning of the 30s of XXth century when the prominent local artists Naum Hadjimladenov and Vasil Zahariev initiated the establishing of a museum collection. The collection was exposed in the local ...

The National Museum of Archaeology in Sofia was officially opened to the public on May 18, 1905. It is hosted in an impressive old building - "Buyuk (Big) Mosque". The museum offers permanent Exhibitions disposed in Prehistory hall, Vault, Central Hall and Middle Ages Hall and also it host ...

The Earth and Мan Museum in Sofia was Founded in 1986. There are exhibited more than 20,000 exhibits are on display, divided into 6 sections: Giant Crystals, Minerals of the Earth, Industrial Minerals, Raw Material Sources of Bulgaria, Gems, New Materials. Sometimes, the museum also hosts different ...

Village of Busintsi is well-known for centuries with its ceramics. During the Bulgarian Renaissance, the local Businska school  reached its zenith, and in the village almost every house had rolled pottery wheels (over 300). In Busentsi was located also the first Bulgarian school in ceramics.In the ...

Being the first and the richest natural history museum on the Balkans, the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia studies, preserves and disseminates information about the living and non-living nature both in Bulgaria and throughout the world. The museum exhibitions occupy 16 halls on 4 floors....