Regional Museum of History – Veliko Tarnovo

The Regional Museum of History in Veliko Tarnovo is the oldest and the biggest historical museum outside Sofia. It was established in 1871. The fund of the museum keeps over 200,000 exhibits of the high antiquity to the newest history. Some of them are unique for national and European history – the Hotnishko Gold (the oldest gold in the world), golden decorations from Thracian tombs, golden and silver coins of different rulers, marble statues, medieval ring-seals, wall-paints from medieval churches, masterpiece of the Christian arts from 12th to 19th century, Nedelnik written by Sofronii of Vratsa, collections of medals, honors, coins, seals, signs; ethnography collections of jewellery, cloths, pottery; ritual goods and etc. Some of them are presented in the exhibitions, preserved areas, house-museums, and the collections: Architectural museum preserved area Tsarevets (picture in the left ), Archeological museum, National Revival and Constitutive National Assembly museum, New History museum, the Sarafkina house, the house-museum of P.R.Slaveikov, the churches St. Dimitar of Thessaloniki, and St. Apostles Peter and Pavel, Architectural museum preserved area Arbanasi, and others.