


Museum
Historical Museum Popovo
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- address:
- Popovo, 97, bul. Balgariya
- email:
- museumpopovo@gmail.com
- telephone:
- +35960843564
A survey of past and Popovo area began in 1927 when the city was founded Archaeological Society. He collected archaeological monuments are mostly stored in the local community center "St. Cyril and Methodius "in the basement of what the September 8, 1957 opened the first museum in the region.
Since 1991, the Community Center is a museum collection with the status of Municipal History Museum. The current exhibition was opened on March 2, 1995 is situated on an area of 350 square meters Museum Fund includes approximately 30,000 units, of which nearly exposition 2500. In another building - house hanged in 1942 for political activities Taseva Mara - is an ethnographic exhibition "From the village of Popovo to city of Popovo”.
Mansard floor of the former Profitable House built in 1910 by 2009 is given to the museum and it is governed Art Gallery "Cyril May."
The museum undertook archaeological excavations of the late antique fortress "Kale Kovachevsko" ancient necropolis area village Gorsko Ablanovo and Thracian tomb near the village Gagovo.
Every Thursday visits are free.
Working hours: 08:00 to 17:00