Museums

REGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM 

1, Saedinenie Sq.

tel.: 032/ 624 339,tel./fax: 032/ 633 106

www.archaeologicalmuseumplovdiv.org

archmuseumplovdiv@abv.bg

Working hours:9.30a.m. –17.30p.m.

Closed: Sunday and Monday

The Regional Archaeological Museum in Plovdiv is one of the oldest cultural institutions in Bulgaria. Officially opened in 1882, its development passes through the stage of being archaeological-numismatic collection-office, until it was finally established as Archaeological Museum in 1920. The museum possesses one of the richest collections of artifacts and works of human art related to the history of Plovdiv District and the Town of Plovdiv – successor to one of the largest and most important ancient cities on the Balkan Peninsula – Philippopolis.

REGIONAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY  www.historymuseumplovdiv.comhm_plovdiv@mail.bg

Exhibition Unification of Bulgaria - 1 Saedinenie Sq       Tel.: +359 32 629 409

Summerworking hours:9.30a.m. –12.00p.m.; 12.30p.m. –18.00p.m.

Winterworking hours: 8.30a.m.  –12.00p.m.; 12.30a.m. –17.00p.m.

Saturday:9.30a.m. –17.00p.m.

Closed:Sunday
Day for a free-of-charge visit: Thursday

The building was built in 1885 for the Provincial Counsel of Eastern Rumelia. On 19.09.1985 the national museum exhibition „Unification of Bulgaria1885”was opened here. On an area covering 1000 sq. m.,through authentic items, weapons, photographs and documents are traced back the efforts of Bulgarians in the establishing of Eastern Rumelia as The Second Bulgarian State, their fight for the Unification with Principality of Bulgariaand its military defense - The Serbian-Bulgarian War.   

Hristo Danov’s House-museum- 2 Mitropolit Paisii Str.;  tel.: +359 32 629 405

Summerworking hours:9.30a.m. –12.00p.m.; 12.30p.m. –18.00p.m.

Winterworking hours: 8.30a.m.  –12.00p.m.; 12.30a.m. –17.00p.m.

Saturday– on demand

Closed:Sunday

Day for a free-of-charge visit: Thursday

The building was built in the mid 19 century and Hristo Gruev Danov,the founder of organized book-publishing in Bulgaria,lived here from 1869until his death in 1911. Today, an exhibition dedicated to the history of book-publishing in Plovdiv and Plovdiv regionis situated here.The stages in the development of Bulgarian education on the basis of Hristo G. Danov and Dragan Manchov’s publishing activity are traced here.

 „Bulgarian Revival” Exhibition - 1 Tsanko Lavrenov Str.      tel.: 032 623 378

Summerworking hours:9.30a.m. –12.00p.m.; 12.30p.m. –18.00p.m.

Saturday and Sunday: 10.00a.m. –18.00p.m.

Closed on:Tuesday 9.30a.m. –12.00p.m.

Winterworking hours: 8.30a.m.  –12.00p.m.; 12.30a.m. –17.00p.m.

Saturday: 10.00a.m. –18.00p.m.

Closed:Sunday
Day for a free-of-charge visit: Thursday

 “Bulgarian Revival” Exhibition is set in the house of the rich merchant of Plovdiv Dimitar Georgiadi, which was built in 1848 and traces the history of Plovdiv during the period from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Rich documentary and photographic material allows guests to submergein the atmosphere of the city’sdistant past – a time of foreign rule, but also a time of assertion of Bulgarians’ national identity, a time of fight for independent Bulgarian education, church and national independence.

Museum Centre of Modern History - 14, Angel Bukoreshtliev Str.        tel.: +359 32 628 886

Summerworking hours:9.30a.m. –12.00p.m.; 12.30p.m. –18.00p.m.

Winterworking hours: 8.30a.m.  –12.00p.m.; 12.30a.m. –17.00p.m.

Saturday:9.30a.m. –17.00p.m.

Closed:Sunday
Day for a free-of-charge visit: Thursday

The building was built in 1895 as officers’ club. From the beginning of 1905 until 1923 it was a “Public House” with theatrical company, brass music band, orchestra and night school. Today it is a Museum Centre of Modern History and houses the permanent exhibition entitled The Soul of the Japanese Doll - a donation from the Friends of Bulgaria society in Japan.

REGIONAL ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM - 2 Dr. Stoyan Chomakov Str.;  tel.: 359 32 625 654; fax: +359 32 626 328

WEB: www.ethnograph.info;  E-mail: ethnograph@abv.bg

Summerworking hours:9.00a.m. –12.00p.m.; 14.00p.m. –17.30p.m.

Friday: 14.00p.m.– 17.30  p.m.

Winterworking hours: 9.00a.m. –12.00p.m.; 14.00a.m. –17.00p.m.

Friday:14.00p.m.– 17.00p.m.

Closed: Monday; Friday till noon

Day for a free-of-charge visit: Thursday /for organized students’ groups/

The exhibition is located in Arghir Kuyumdzhiouglu’sbeautiful Renaissance house, which was built in 1847 by the master-builder Hadji Georgi. Inside of it, there are representations of traditional material and spiritual culture of the Bulgarians who lived in the region of Plovdiv, Rhodope Mountains and Srednogorie during the National Revival. Among the many museum collections, those of brassware, pottery, weapons, shepherds wood-carving, jewelry and church items, sewn and crocheted laces, costumes from the entire Bulgarian ethnic territory, musical instruments, and urban decorstand out.

CITY ART GALLERY – PLOVDIV

www.galleryplovdiv.com

ghgpl@abv.bg

Permanent exhibition- 14 A, Saborna Str.   ; tel.: +359 32 635 322

Working hours:9.30a.m. –12.30p.m.; 13.00p.m. –17.30p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 10.00a.m. –12.30p.m.; 13.00a.m. –17.30p.m.
Day for a free-of-charge visit: Thursday

The exhibition is housed in the building of the Young Girls’ College, designed and built under the guidance of architect Joseph Schnitter in 1881. It is arranged chronologically on two floors. There are over 200 original artworks, which trace the development of Bulgarian art from the National Revival up to present day. Prominent authors and characteristic stylistic trends are represented here.

Icon Gallery - 22, Saborna Str.; tel.: +359 32 626 086

Working hours:9.30a.m. –12.30p.m.; 13.00p.m. –17.30p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 10.00a.m. –12.30p.m.; 13.00a.m. –17.30p.m.
Day for a free-of-charge visit: Thursday

The Icon Exhibition opened in 1975. It was structured near the Revival Church of St. Constantine and Elena, on top of the round defensive tower of the early Byzantine city wall in the Old Town. Some of the best examples of icons taken from the Gallery’s collection and the Plovdiv Bishopric are exhibited here. They represent the Orthodox Christian art in the region of Plovdiv and the entire Southern Bulgaria from the end of the fifteenth century to the late nineteenth century.

Tsanko Lavrenov Permanent Exhibitions and Mexican Art - 11, Artin Gidikov Str.; tel.: +359 32/ 628 745

Working hours:9.30a.m. –12.30p.m.; 13.00p.m. –17.30p.m.
Saturday: 10.00a.m. –12.30p.m.; 13.00a.m. –17.30p.m.

Closed:Sunday
Day for a free-of-charge visit: Thursday
 

Tsanko Lavrenov/1896-1978/ was one of the most famous Bulgarian painters, a distinctivenaturaltalent with high erudition, limitless energy and incredible creative imagination. The exhibition includes the artist’s best works.

The first floor presents the exhibition of Mexican Art – modern Mexican graphic arts, crafts and copies of stone sculpture and ceramics. The exhibits are donated in honor of the 1300 anniversary of the Bulgarian State, and the gallery was opened in 1981.

Encho PironkovPermanent Art Exhibition - 1, Vasil Kanchev Str.; tel.:  +359 32/ 638 055

Working hours:9.30a.m. –12.30p.m.; 13.00p.m. –17.30p.m.
Saturday: 10.00a.m. –12.30p.m.; 13.00a.m. –17.30p.m.

Closed:Sunday
Day for a free-of-charge visit: Thursday
 

Encho Pironkov (born 1932) is from the generation of artists which in the 1960s not only modernized the look of the Plovdiv art school, but also of the Bulgarian art. 45 works donated by the author, covering various periods of his creative development are exhibited here.

Temporary Exhibitions Halls - 15, Alekxander I Str.;  tel.: +359 32 624 221

Working hours:9.30a.m. –12.30p.m.; 13.00p.m. –17.30p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 10.00a.m. –12.30p.m.; 13.00a.m. –17.30p.m.
Day for a free-of-charge visit: Thursday

The exhibition spaces are housed in a building with a typical urban architecture from the beginning of the 20th century. In the halls on both floors are presented temporary exhibitions relating to the anniversaries of outstanding Bulgarian artists, as well as the history and problems of the country’s cultural life. Exhibitions of foreign artists, experimental exhibitions and children exhibitions are also presented here.                                                                     

City Art Gallery offers a general route ticket for all exhibitions.

REGIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

34, Hristo G. Danov Str.

tel.: 032/626 683

www.rnhm.org

info@rnhm.org

Working hours:8.30a.m. –12.00p.m.; 13.00p.m. –17.00p.m.

Closed: Monday

Day for a free-of-charge visit: Thursday

The museum is the second largest natural history museum in the country, with modern and contemporary styled exhibitions, with enhanced nature conservation idea. The halls of Geology, Botanic, Invertebrates, Amphibians and Reptiles, Birds and Mammals are on the first floor, and on the ground floor are the halls of Fishes, Aquarium and Seabed. The museum presents a freshwater aquarium with an area of 100 sq. m., where over 32 species of ornamental fish and exotic plants are shown.