P. O. Box 280
"Tzar Boris ІІІ" St. No. 2
Montana 3400
Montana District Bulgaria

International Dialing Code: 359
(0)96-307-481: Director
(0)96-305-156: Curatori
(0)96-305-489: Exhibition hall

Montana is situated in the northwest of Bulgaria, on the border between the Danube Plain and the west part of the Balkans. In every two years, the town hosts “Diko Iliev” National Festival of Wind Instruments. There are some places of interests for the tourists like the expositions of the Historical Museum, Mihailovata House, and the Archeological Exposition Lapidarium.

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The exhibition of the museum represents the cultural-historical development of Montana and its region from the 5th-6th C. BC. up to the 20th C. AD. These are tools of the first people from Thracian culture during the Bronze and Metal Ages. There is a collection of vessels made of metal and ceramics, a small bronze object and marble sculpture from the ancient Montana. The Silver Treasure from 13th-14th C. shows Bulgarian Medieval jewellery work. The icon collection is great importance of the 18th-19th C. The folk art of the region has a colourful ethnographic accent. In a collection of original photos, documents, and objects that are representing the city style of living, you can see the settlement with its architecture and cultural- educational activity from the late 19th C. to the early decades of the 20th C.

The Historical Museum- Montana was founded in 1953. In nearly five decades, a tremendous amount of work has been done for collecting, conducting scientific research, and educating people about historical heritage. From 1968 to 1994, continuous archeological excavations were carried out. The researches did not only provide new evidences for the development of the town through the Roman age, but they also reconstrucuted the life of settlers from the stone-copper age to the end of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom in the 14th century; those people had settled in the area around today's Montana.

Researches of the material and spiritual life on the territory of Montana are carried out through years. These days the museum has rich collections of artifacts. The following departments have been formed: “Archeology,” “Ethnography,” “History of Bulgaria XV-XIX Centuries,” “Modern History,” “Latest History,” “Funds,” “Public Relations and Advertising,” and “Historical Monuments.”