National Ethnographic Museum

The Ethnographic Museum in Sofia was founded in 1892 as a department of the Popular Museum (today`s Archaeological Museum). It became a separate museum in 1906 with the completion of the collection of works of traditional Bulgarian handcrafts, costumes, fabrics, carpets, embroideries, musical instruments, objects of the interior decoration as well as of farm tools.

The Museum`s collections are organized under several items: clothes, goldsmithery, copper objects, agriculture, wood-carving, home furnishing, ceramics, fabrics and embroideries, carpets, ritual objects and foreign art.

Address of the Ethnographic Museum: 6A, Moskovska St. Tel: (+359 2) 987 4191 ; Fax: (+359 2) 980 1162

Working time of the Ethnographic Museum: 10.30h - 17.30h; Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.