National History Museum
The National History museum has been founded in 1973. It is one of the largest history museums on the Balkans and the largest museum in Bulgaria. It keeps cultural history of Bulgarian lands for the past 8000 years.
5 exhibition halls contain the following major exhibitions: Prehistory, Ancient Thracia, Middle Ages – the First and the Second Bulgarian Empire, Bulgarian lands during XV-IXX century, and the Third Bulgarian State – 1878 to present days.
At the museum you will see bone tools, gold masks, pottery, unique treasures of the Thracians, coins, icons, banners and many more unique exhibits.
Since 2000, the museum is housed in a government residence in Boyana.
The National History Museum is a place we recomment to our guests to visit if they would like to know more about the Bulgarian history.
You can find more information on the National History Museum at the Official Tourism Portal of Bulgaria here and on the website of the museum.