REGIONAL HISTORICAL MUSEUM – BLAGOEVGRAD

Regional History Museum – Blagoevgrad is located in the Varosha quarter in Blagoevgrad.

The Regional Historical Museum – Blagoevgrad was founded in 1952 and it owns a modern building where a highly professional exhibition is unfolded by halls: archeology, nature, Bulgarian lands XVth – to the beginning of XXth century, ethnography.  The Museum store over 160 thousand exhibits. A special attention deserve: the the unique one collection of cult figures originating in the prehistoric age; some materials from the age of Thracians – armament of Thracian worrier, images of gladiators’ scenes over marble plates and  clay lamps, clay masks, medical instruments, monetary  find of Thracian tribe from the end of the Vth-IVth century before Christ; a collection of cult tombstones plates and vessels, early Bulgarian ornaments and art  ceramics form Melnik; Renaissance literature; unique ethnographic collections of tissues, costumes, ceramics, metal and wood from the end of the XIXth and the beginning of XXth century, valuable documentary materials, among which 24 letters of Goce Delchev and personal belongings of the actors   of our national liberation movement.

The Regional Historical Museum – Blagoevgrad has a rich collection of endemic plants, vertebrates and invertebrates, rocks and minerals. In order to promote the natural wealth of Pirin region in 1999 in the Regional historical museum – Blagoevgrad a Center for Nature protection of National park “Pirin” is founded. 

Conditions for a specialized work with students offers an authentic class room from the Age of Renaissance. The Museum has a convenient multifunctional conference hall, equipped with modern technological devices. 

Since 2011 the building of the Regional historical museum – Blagoevgrad is adapted to the needs of people with disabilities of the locomotor system

Part of the Regional historical museum – Blagoevgrad is the House-museum “Birthplace of Gueorgui Izmirliev – the Macedonian” in the neighborhood Varosha, which courtyard in summer houses the open-air  gallery of Blagoevgrad’s artists’ works.

Additional information
Services: For group visits for children and adults, different educational and information programs are available for which a preliminary request is required.
Entrance fees for various expositions and services offered at the following link: http://www.museumblg.bg/
Free entrance day for museum expositions: Monday
There is no free day for the Museum Kids Corner.