Museum sights in Plovdiv
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Ethnographical Museum
Plovdiv’s fascinating Ethnographical Museum houses some 40,000 exhibits, including folk costumes and musical instruments, jewellery and examples of traditional crafts such as weaving, metalworking, winemaking and beekeeping. Traditional tools ranging from grape-crushers and wine-measures to apparatuses used for distilling attar of roses are also displayed. Upstairs, the restored 19th-century rooms have nice touches such as carved wooden ceilings. The most renowned Bulgarian National Revival–period home in Plovdiv, it was built in 1847 and owned by the eminent Agir Koyoumdjioglou, later becoming a girls’ boarding school and a tobacco and flour warehouse.
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Archaeological Museum
Due to reopen in 2008, the Archaeological Museum displays Thracian and Roman pottery and jewellery, and ecclesiastical artefacts, icons and liturgical paraphernalia. Hopefully the museum will exhibit its collection of 60,000 archaeological items upon reopening.
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Cultural Center Thrakart
Visible through floor-to-ceiling windows in the Tsar Obedinitel underpass, Cultural Center Thrakart contains extensive Roman floor mosaics and various artefacts from Roman (and earlier) times. Concerts are performed on the centre’s small stage.
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Historical Museum
The Historical Museum, also called the Museum of Revival & The National Liberation, concentrates on the 1876 April Uprising and the Batak massacre. Built in 1848 by Dimitâr Georgiadi, it’s also called the Georgiadi Kâshta.
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Nedkovich House
The Nedkovich House, dating from 1863, has a lovely, leafy courtyard that sometimes hosts art shows, but alas, the house is poorly lit inside. The highlights are the ornate wood ceiling and flowery wall paintings.
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Museum of History
Housed within the Archaeological Museum, the Museum of History chronicles the 1885 Unification of Bulgaria through documents, photographs and belongings of the protagonists.
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Museum of Icons
Beside the Church of Sveti Konstantin & Elena, the small Museum of Icons has a sublime display of (15th century and up) icons.
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