Scientific Group of the National History Museum
The National Museum of History is a cultural and scientific organization that participates in the implementation of the state policy on the preservation of cultural values and museum work on the territory of the whole country. The main activity of the museum is the preservation and presentation of movable and immovable cultural property. In order to carry out this activity, the museum carries out scientific research, organises and holds scientific events (conferences, workshops and discussions), publishes scientific, popular scientific and promotional materials, publishes the results of the identification of cultural property owned by natural or legal persons, after obtaining the written consent of their owners, participates in field archaeological studies on the territory of the country.
The museum has established a scientific group of specialists with scientific degrees or holding an academic position. The members of the scientific group, according to their expertise, carry out scientific processing of the museum collection, participate in scientific forums with reports, prepare and publish scientific works, study best practices in the field of museum work, engage in expositional, collecting and scientific promotion activities.
How science is done
On land and in water: the most interesting expeditions of the National History Museum.
Did you know that the sea “eats” metal? And how difficult it is to salvage an artifact pulled from the depths?
Members of the Scientific Group

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bonnie Petrunova
Director
Prof. Dyn. Prof. Ivan Gatsov
chief curator
Assoc. Prof. Vladimir Penchev
numismatist
Principal Asst. Dr. Mariela Inkova
Head of Department “History of Bulgaria in the Middle Ages”- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ilian Boyanov; Report for 2022.
- Principal Asst. Dr. Petranka Nedelcheva; report for 2022
- Dr. Ralitsa Katzova; report for 2022.
- Dr. Emilia Zenova
- Dr. Radostina Tsenkova; report for 2022.
- Dr. Veselina Ivanova;
PhD students
Pavlina Devlova
Scientific supervisor:Dr. Rumyana Georgieva
Dissertation topic:
“The Emergence and Development of Urban Life in Thrace – Mid 2nd millennium BC – 4th century BC”.
Panayot Antonov
Scientific supervisor:Prof. Stanislav Stanilov
Dissertation topic:
“Amulets in Medieval Bulgaria (VII – XI century), SSA BAS”
Alexander Vatov
Scientific supervisor:prof. dr. Hr. Prof. H.H. Etropolski, National Academy of Fine Arts
Dissertation topic:
“Photographic Collection of the National Museum of Natural History from the Late 19th and Early 19th Centuries”. “The NIMH of the early 20th century. Processes, conservation and characteristic features”
Violina Kiriakova
Scientific supervisor:Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ilian Boyanov
Thesis:
“Typology and semantics of ancient and late antique amulets from the Balkan provinces of the Roman Empire”
Mina Megala
Scientific supervisor:Assoc. Prof. Dr. Boni Petrunova
Thesis:
“Early Christian Monastic Communities in the Eastern Balkans and Egypt. A study of analogous and synchronous phenomena”
Dimitar Vassilev
Scientific supervisor:Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stanka Yaneva
Dissertation topic:
“Folk crafts in modernity, functions, representation, perspectives”
Ivaylo Kanev
Scientific supervisor:Assoc. Prof. Dr. Konstantin Konstantinov, “Bishop Konstantin Preslavski” University
Dissertation topic:
“Late Antique and Medieval Fortress in M. “Balak dere” municipality. Ivaylovgrad”
Elena Endarova
Scientific supervisor:Assoc. Prof. Dr. Boni Petrunova
Dissertation topic:
“Political and Economic Contacts of the Dobrudja Despotism in the Second Half of the 14th Century. Based on archaeological data”
Ekaterina Stamboliyska
Scientific supervisor:prof. Prof. Ivan Gatsov PhD.
Dissertation topic:
“Development of the social and economic relations of the Chalcolithic population based on the studies of the necropolises of the Hamanjiya culture and Varna culture”






