Museum
Naval Museum

The museum is one of the oldest in Bulgaria, now located in the southern part of the Sea Garden in Varna. In its halls, open exposure and by all appearances Naval Museum presents and promotes marine and naval history of Bulgaria. Over 125 years of existence have been collected tens of thousands of exhibits. The museum has a rich library. Decades studying sea our past and strive to maintain the value system of public respect for the achievements of Bulgarian moryachestvo centuries - the military crew, dedicated to the shipping, shipbuilding, ship repair, artistic perception of the sea. The official opening and consecration of the Maritime Museum (as it is called then) going on 20 May 1923, which can be determined for the first public military museum in Bulgaria. Fund of the museum is organized into 15 collections in accordance with the type of objects or the types of activities that provide or origin. Among the collection "Cool and firearms" are at old age, removed from the Black Sea at Cape Shabla in 1977 and relating to Russo-Turkish wars XVIII-XIX century. Included are personal weapons of prominent officers of the fleet, including not only Bulgarian, there are examples of foreign military fleets. In another collection has examples of weapons from different eras and types. Here is a collection of coastal guns, which at various times have advocated Bulgarian sea coast. Impression uniforms, models of military and commercial ships, personal belongings of famous figures in maritime affairs. The museum has a large collection of documents and photos. The museum operates and warship museum "Druzki", who managed to break the Turkish ship Hamidie "on November 12, 1912. This is - the great victory achieved by our Navy, because weapons of Hamidie "many times superior to that of the" Druzki ". Besides marine guns and the old lighthouse sea port of Varna, in the courtyard of the Naval Museum is located yacht Cor Caroli, which Georgi Georgiev made the first Bulgarian lonely sailing tour of the Earth.

Hours: Summer - 10:30-18 am; winter - 8:30-17 pm Closed: Winter - Saturday and Sunday; summer - Sunday. The seal of the SIP is located at checkout.