National Museum of History
this national museum was started in 1973 and today
houses over 650,000 relics in its collections to make it one of the
biggest history museums in the Balkans. It strives to offer an
inclusive view of the history of Bulgaria from the earliest
prehistory to the current day, in as broad a context as possible.
The museum has grown into the biggest archaeological and historical
archive in the nation and include; jewelry, Paleolithic, bronze age,
Neolithic, Roman age, Chalcolithic, early iron age, weapons, late
iron age, numismatics, late antiquity, uniforms, civil clothes and
accessories, Middle Ages 7-9th century, Middle Ages 10-12th century,
Middle Ages 13-14th centuries, pectorals and other adornments, Late
Middle Ages 15-17th centuries, traditional clothing, printed
materials, early printed materials in foreign languages, everyday
textiles, cinema-photo-phono, church, applied and fine arts, every
day items, documents from the National Revival, philately, documents
from the period 1887-1944, furniture, documents from the modern
history of Bulgaria, tools, photos from the National Revival, maps,
posters, photos from the period between 1878 and 1944, incunabula,
manufacture samples, periodicals from the period between 1878 and
1944, fine and applied arts, periodicals from the modern history of
Bulgaria, flags and heraldry and sphragistics.
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