Description of the attraction
The Regional Historical Museum occupies an important place in the cultural life of the city of Gabrovo. It was created on the initiative of the director of the Aprilovskaya gymnasium, the future minister of public education, Raicho Korolev in 1883. The collection of antiquities gathered in the gymnasium served as the basis for the museum's exposition.
Over more than a century of history of the Historical Museum, its funds have expanded significantly, now they include exhibits of the Paleolithic era, antiquity (IV-VI centuries BC), the period of the existence of the First and Second Bulgarian kingdoms, as well as Turkish rule, Renaissance, industrial rise and our days.
Currently, the museum complex is located in the former building of the Bulgarian National Bank. A beautiful massive multi-storey building was built in 1904 by the architect Nikolai Lazarov. The building was reconstructed for the needs of the museum.
The collection of the complex has more than 90 thousand exhibits, including: found objects of life of primitive people, a numismatic collection (including the first Bulgarian banknote 20 levs), the second most important collection of traditional and urban clothing and accessories, a rich collection of furniture, busts of two honored industrialists of Gabrovo - Ivan Kolchev Kalpazanov and Pencho Semov, a collection of materials on industrialization and much more.
Anyone who is interested in the past, history, a visit to the Regional Historical Museum in Gabrovo will allow you to learn a lot of new things.
