National Museum of Natural History

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Glass cases hold mounted owls and birds of prey before forest posters, above a black-and-white checkered floor.

You can almost sense the ghosts of generations of school parties dutifully trooping through the musty halls of Bulgaria's oldest museum, founded in 1889. Rocks, minerals, stuffed birds and animals, and mounted insects are on display.

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