Museum
Regional Historical Museum Tarnovo

Regional Historical Museum - Veliko Tarnovo is one of the largest museums in Bulgaria. Its subsidiaries are located in the city of Veliko Tarnovo in nearby villages Arbanassi Nikyup, Greeks neighborhood as well as Kilifarevo. Created in 1871, the first museum exhibition was arranged in 1914 and in it, among other artifacts, are displayed and the finds from the excavations of the church "Holy Forty Martyrs". In 1945, Veliko Turnovo Museum was declared a state.

Today, the museum manages several buildings that regulates various expositions and in the museum possesses more than 200 000 exhibits.

The most valuable artifacts that show the lives of our ancestors are in the Archaeological Museum. The museum has a unique golden treasure from the Neolithic era opened in the village Hotnitsa. Museum "Revival and Constituent Assembly" is very close to the Archaeological Museum. The exhibition is located in the old Turkish town hall, built in 1872 by Kolyo Ficheto. The prison museum is located behind Konak. Interesting is the reconstruction of three cells and solitary confinement. Here you can read the names of all 399 revolutionaries are in prison, and to see the portraits of the most eminent personalities imprisoned here. Museum "New and Modern History," the museum is a prison. Here through photographs and original objects are shown the most significant events that occurred in Turnovo in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In a beautiful house on the street "Gurko" is ethnographic exhibition. The house was built in 1861 in Renaissance style. From 1965 Sarafkin house is a monument of culture.

Interest to visitors are late medieval churches and "St. George "in Veliko Tarnovo and" Christmas, "" St. Archangels Michael and Gabriel, "" St. Dimitar "," St. George "and" St. Athanasius "in Arbanasi. To the museum are arranged houses museums and ethnographic complexes, for which you can get information in the main building.

Veliko Tarnovo region is extremely rich in attractions. There are two day family packages 10 sites that cost 30 BGN entertaining guided tour paid - 10 BGN. Surely for a weekend you can not visit all the sites, but you can combine it with a stay in one of the comfortable hotels in the city.