National History Museum

The collection houses and displays donations of Boyan Radev – a famous Bulgarian sportsman and collector.

More than 20 years ago a group of young Bulgarian scientists realized one dream of their own – Bulgaria to be present at the furthest possible and the most unknown continent – Antarctica.

The Room Prehistory represents the development and culture of the population that inhabited the present – day Bulgarian lands from the beginning of the 6th millennium to the end of the 2nd millennium BC.

The Bulgarian Lands from the End of the 6th Century BC to the 6th Century AD

The Bulgarian State in the Middle Ages (the 7th – 14th Century)

The Bulgarian Lands during the Ottoman Rule (1396 – 1878)

The Third Bulgarian Kingdom (1878 – 1946)

Folk dress is an important part of the Bulgarian people’s material culture and a vivid distinguishing national mark. Besides language, it is one of the most certain indices of national belonging.

A large number of treasures and single examples of antique and medieval coins are presented in the National Museum of History exhibition and describe Bulgaria as a real coin treasury.

Replica of a traditional Bulgarian school from the Nationla Revival period.