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Archaeological Museum
The Archaeological Museum displays Thracian and Roman pottery and jewellery, and ecclesiastical artefacts, icons and liturgical paraphernalia. The museum exhibits its collection of 60,000 archaeological items.
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Center for Contemporary Art
The Center for Contemporary Art is housed on pl Hebros in the Chifte Banya, an old Turkish bath, and hosts contemporary works.
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City Art Gallery
The City Art Gallery, another branch of the State Gallery of Fine Arts, holds small, temporary exhibitions of abstract art.
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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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Encho Pironkov City Gallery of Fine Arts
Encho Pironkov City Gallery of Fine Arts displays Bulgarian modern art. It's down a small laneway downhill from ul Sâborna.
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Ethnographical Museum
Plovdiv's fascinating Ethnographical Museum houses some 40,000 exhibits, including folk costumes and musical instruments, jewellery and traditional crafts, like 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 like 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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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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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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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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Night of the Galleries
Plovdiv's large and thriving artistic community continues creating and sustaining the city's many galleries - already bursting with the fruits of 200 years of Bulgarian painting. On 28 September each year, the magical Night of the Galleries sees every Plovdiv gallery open, for free, from to .
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Philipopolis Art Gallery
The Philipopolis Art Gallery is Bulgaria's first private art gallery and occupies the well-restored Hadzhi Aleko house (1865). It boasts works by 19th- and 20th-century Bulgarian masters like Vladimir Dimitrov, Anton Mitov and Dimitar Gyudzhenov. Hospitable owner Stefan Maletzov happily provides background information and encourages you to take photos.
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State Gallery of Fine Arts
The State Gallery of Fine Arts, occupying a mansion from 1846, contains outstanding works by 19th- and 20th-century masters like Goshka Datsov, Konstantin Velichkov and Nikolai Rainov. Look out also for Georgi Mashev and master Vladimir Dimitrov's works.
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