Saturday, October 29, 2005

The National Museum of History - Sofia, Bulgaria

Keywords: history of the Balkans, history of Bulgaria

The National Museum of History in Sofia is one of the largest history museums on the Balkans with 650.000 objects and largest archaeological and historical archive. The Museum's collections are its greatest treasure. They contain material remains from ancient and mediaeval cultures in the Bulgarian Lands.

- Prehistoric cultures in Bulgaria
- Ancient Thrace - monuments and finds
- Macedonian and Hellenistic period
- Roman Empire period monuments from Thrace and Moesia
- Art and materials from the time "Volkerwanderungs", 4th-6th centuries
- Byzantine Empire art and culture from Bulgaria
- First and Second Bulgarian Kingdom culture
- Ottoman rule of Bulgarian lands - materials
- Bulgarian National Revival culture
- Modern Bulgarian history

Source: National Museum of History

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