Museum
Archaeological Museum- Burgas

The Archaeological Museum is located in the building of girls' school, built in 1894 Architect of the building is Swiss Hermann Maier, designed primarily bank buildings in Sofia, Plovdiv and Ruse. The Archaeological Museum is part of the Burgas Regional Historical Museum in the city which includes ethnographic, and the Natural History Museum. In the museum are displayed objects from prehistoric settlements in the region IV-V millennium before Christ and the ancient cities of the era of Ancient Thrace, the Greek colonization of the Black Sea and from the Roman Empire. The earliest artifacts in the museum are tools of stone, flint and bone from the Neolithic and Copper Age of settlement mounds. In Bourgas Bay and found buried settlements from the Bronze Age (third millennium BC). In ancient settlement Anti located at Naval Base today of Burgas was discovered a statue of Apollo, which is also displayed in the museum. Especially interesting is the third hall of the Archaeological Museum, where he represented the Thracian religious life in the era of Roman rule in Thrace (I - IIIc). From this period treasure discovered in Thracian burial mounds near Pomorie, where she was buried by burning Thracian priestess Leseskepra . Her name is spelled with Greek letters on a pair of gold earrings. They found clay figurines and ritual related priestly functions. The collection has more marble reliefs and statues of various deities, including first occupies the main Thracian deity - Thracian horseman. The museum also has foreign exposure - among the most valuable exhibits here is unique Thracian tomb - "dolmen" from the thirteenth century BC. from the village Belevren.

The museum is open from June to September - from 10.00 to 17.30 Saturday to 16.30 hours and Sunday rest. During the remaining months work from 9.00 to 17.00, Saturday and Sunday on request. Talk of the Bulgarian is 5 lv , and video projection for 30 minutes – 4 lv. If you visit three sites of the Regional Historical Museum, pay for two.