What a building, it more reminded me to a palace than a museum. Absolutely stunning.Good place to learn about bulgarian history. Top tip: the coffee place at the back of the museum is a brilliant place to be on a sunny day!
Very good exposition of cultural and historical heritage, I would recommended this place for everybody
This place covers almost the whole Bulgarian history, it is rich of artifacts from different eras with sufficient English explanation written on wall banners, the hall of the traditional clothes ( located on the 3rd floor) was very exciting, what's not good on the visit that they don't guide visitors to the start point ( the start hall) of the visit, I entered a hall with artifacts dated back to AD then the opposite hall pieces dated back to BC, I think the museum administration should provide a leaflet to guide visitors to the sequence of the visit and to number the museum halls ascending order according to date, rather than that the museum is very rich and worth visiting. Ticket for 10 Lev. but we bought a combined ticket from boyana church for 12 Lev.
Amazing artifacts. From 2bc to 19th century.l has 4 levels and has artifacts from before time to artifacts from Archduke Ferdiinad.
it was really interesting to find out that Bulgaria has the oldest golden treasure ever found , made by a tribe called Traki. There was a pretty good presentation about it
A great place to learn about Bulgarian history. They have artifacts from pre Roman times to the modern era. They also admit the historical mistakes they made during the Balkan wars and the two world wars.
The national museum of history is situated somehow outside the city center and you'd better take a taxi (6-7 leva from the center) to arrive there. But, it's totally worth the visit. I've been there several times with the kids, always booking a guide with us. The exhibitions are marvellous, lots of items from private collections are exposed too and you'll really enjoy the tour if interested in the history of Bulgaria.During the summer we do a nice stroll around the museum - at the back it has a lovely garden where we eat icecream and enjoy the sun.I totally recommend it. For me the guided tour was definitely worth it and I recommend it. There are discounts for family visits too.
They have moved part of the exhibition of Thracian gold to another museum. The place in mainly interesting for the architecture. It used to be Todor Zhivkov 's (the communist dictator) residence.
Wonderfully clean, surprisingly big and a vast collection of well preserved artifacts from ancient Bulgaria to contempory and near modern exibits. Everything is well preserved and most descriptions are written in both Bulgarian as well as English. I am not typically impressed and would have liked to see the garden behind the museum taken care of. The one frustrating thing was that in typical fashion, the man at the cafe and woman at the gift shop tried to overcharge thinking that I was just another foreign tourist who didnt know better.
From the gold artifacts of the Thracians, thru all of the turmoil of history with borders shifting all the way into Russia for a time. At the crossroads between Europe, Greece and Asia (Turkey) Bulgaria has many stories to tell. It was great to see that the 500 years ruled by the Ottoman Empire were covered in 2 displays, whereas every other era deserved at least a full room in the ex-Soviet era building. Worth the trip to get a perspective of Bulgaria.