Old Sofia Municipal Enterprise with Sofia Museum of History

Address:	"Excharch Joseph" St. No. 27 Sofia 1000 Sofia City Bulgaria
TEL:	International Dialing Code: 359 (0)2-983-37-55: Director (0)2-983-53-51: Chief Accountant (0)2-983-15-26: Museum Director
Fax:	(0)2-983-53-51: Chief Accountant
E-mail:	bobichilev@abv.bg
URL:	http://www.oldsofia.bg

Opening Hours Admission Access Town Info Exhibitions Info Museum History

Exhibitions

History- Prehistory; Antiquity; Medieval Period; Ottoman Period; Bulgarian Revival; Modern History, Archaeology, Ethnography, Natural Science, Art- Painting; Graphic Art; Sculpture; Handicraft

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Opening Hours

Open	-
Closed	-

Others

At moment, there is no exhibition, and the museum is not accepting visitors. The museum is currenty under process of remodeling.

Admission

Adult	-
Student	-
Child	-	-
Others	-

Guide/Lecture	• Bulgarian	available
Guide/Lecture	• English	available

Others

Access to Museum

From nearby Regional Center to Town

From Bus Station/Railway Station in Town

It is situated in the centre of the city.

From the Central Railway and Bus Station: take tram No 1, 7, 2, 14, or 18- direction towards the centre of the city. 10 min. walk.

Town Information

Sofia has been the capital of Bulgaria since 1879. It is a town with thousand-year history. The earliest archaelogical remains dated back to the early Neolithic period. In pre-Roman times this territory was inhabited by the Thracian tribe of Serdi. The Roman Serdica was fortified in the 2nd c. AD. In 809 it was annexed to the state of Bulgaria by khan Krum and was named Sredets.

Basilica "St. Sophia"

Exhibitions Information

Number of Collection	over 100,000
Exhibition Area	-

Many exhibits are kept in the funds of the Museum. Their scientific, historic, art, and documentary values are great. The Museum has more than 100,000 artifacts in possesion. There are finds from archaeological excavations, coins, jewellery, ancient weapons, clothes, medals, posters of theatrical and cinema performances, original documents and photos, personal belongings of eminent persons of Bulgarian history such as tsar Ferdinand, Stefan Stambolov, Dragan Tsankov, Konstantin Stoylov, and many others..

Rotunda "St. George"

Mausoleum of Kniaz Alexander Batenberg

East gate in Serdica Station

Museum History

Golden bowl of Kazichane, a region of Sofia, 8-7th c. BC

A painting of J. Oberbauer from Sofia

Mercedes of Tsar Ferdinand, 1906.

Year of Establishment	1928
Founder	Mayor Vladimir Vazov

The History Museum of Sofia was arranged in Sofia after its proclamation for the capital of Bulgaria. The museum had 5 major changes through its history.

In 1941 the first permanent exhibition was organized in a building (Address: Banski Square No. 3) that was bought by the Sofia Municipality. This exhibition was placed in several halls, and it represented themes such as ethnography of Sofia, its town-planning and town development after the Liberation. The building was destroyed by the bomb raids in 1944. Two years later the Museum restored its activities.

The museum has functioned as an independent cultural institution under the name History Museum of Sofia since 1952. In 1959 a triangular tower, a part of the fortification of the ancient city, was unearthed during the underground construction beneath a building at the corner of "Kniaginia Maria Luisa" Blvd. and "Excharch Joseph" St. Sofia Municipality made a decision to arrange the permanent exhibition of the Museum at this place. However, because of many obstacles, this decision stayed unrealized.

Since 1952 the museum has actively carried out collection of artifacts and research work, and it has organized more than 100 exhibitions in and outside Bulgaria.