Description of the attraction
The Historical Museum in the city of Batak was founded in 1956. The museum complex includes the building of the museum itself, as well as the historical church of St. Weeks and house-museums with Balinov and Sharov.
The City Historical Museum is a cultural research institute that implements the state policy in the field of protecting historical and cultural values, as well as developing museums in the Batak municipality. On the basis of the historical museum in the city, coordination of all archaeological activities in the region takes place, expertise and presentation of not only cultural heritage, but also natural resources. All this makes it possible to develop cultural tourism in Bulgaria.
The total area of the museum is 900 square meters and on this territory there are exhibitions with photographs and documentary materials, original finds from different eras - from antiquity to the Renaissance, as well as the period of the April Uprising during the Russian-Turkish war. On the ground floor there is a reproduction of the Batak partisans' hideout. The total number of exhibits presented in the museum is more than 500.
House-Museum Balinov is the object number 3 of the historical museum, ranked among the architectural and cultural monuments of the country. The building was built around 1895. Tellingly, the walls of the house are painted, but there are only a few such houses in Batak, since traditionally the walls were left white. From 1918 to 1944, Trendafil Balinov, secretary of the youth workers' union and member of the communist resistance against the German occupation, lived here. Since 1968, the house has been converted into a museum, today ethnographic expositions are presented here: life, customs and traditional way of life of the Bulgarians of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. In the courtyard of the building, there is the only surviving stove, which was installed right in the courtyard.
The Sharov House-Museum, which is also part of the museum complex, is the Boris Sharov gallery, but there are no permanent exhibitions. The house-museum is open to visitors only at the time of exhibiting temporary exhibitions.
In any of the objects of the Batak Historical Museum, you can buy souvenirs, information materials, etc.
