Regional Historical Museum – Burgas

Regional Historical Museum – Burgas is the successor of the Society museum of Debelt Archaeological Society established in 1925. Today the museum includes four departments with separate exhibitions – Archeology, Ethnography, History and Natural History. They are located in detached buildings situated in the central part of the city.

The archeological exhibition is located at 21 Aleko Bogoridi Str. The building was designed by Hermann Meyer, a Swiss architect. It was built for a girls’ high school in 1894 by order of the Ministry of National Education. In five separate halls, chronologically and thematically there are presented: 1. Prehistory and Ancient Shipping in Burgas Bay; 2. Thracians, Hellenes and Pontic centers on the West Coast; 3. Within the boundaries of the Roman Empire and Deultum; 4. The Middle Ages and Archaeological Studies of Burgas Museum; 5. Safety Vault Hall. An external exhibition is presented next to the museum building, in which ancient and medieval tombstones are arranged.

In whole two of the halls and in parts of the other three there are exhibited ancient and late antique monuments made of metal, stone, glass, wood and ceramics. Coins, jewelry, vessels, statues, inscriptions, burial and tombstones, anchors, etc. are presented. The finds were acquired from regular and rescue archeological excavations, as well as from endowments and redemptions. They originate mainly from sites located on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Not a small part of the monuments were found as well west of the coast in the lands of the municipalities of Burgas region.