Museum sights in Rila Monastery
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The 19th-century revolutionary leader, Vasil Levski, formed and trained insurgents at the monastery and urged the monks themselves to take up arms against the Turks in 1876. This history is highlighted in the small, separate museum on the 3rd floor. The museum door is usually locked, but staff at the reception office inside the gate can open it.
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Ethnographic Museum
Beside the Samokov gate in the northeast of the monastic compound is the Ethnographic Museum, displaying regional folk costumes, textiles and crafts. Labelling is in Bulgarian only.
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