Ethnography Museum – Silistra

The exhibition of the Ethnography Museum in Silistra (Northern Bulgaria) spreads on an area on 300 sq.m. The exposition presents the unique south Dobrudja material and spiritual culture of the Silistra region from the middle of 19th century to the beginning of 20th century. The exhibition shows original tools, costumes of the vanished populations Grebentsi from the middle of 19th century, kouker masks of the region, as well as brezaia masks used in a winter ritual for fertility and health (their origin has a pagan nature and have been used only in the Silistra region – the village of Srebarna). The Museum has about 6000 museum exhibits.

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