Ad
related to: varna archaeological museum history
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Founded on 3 June 1888, when a museum, part of the City Library was established, the Varna Archaeological Museum is situated in a historic building designed in the Neo-Renaissance style by the noted architect Petko Momchilov and built in 1892–1898 for the Varna Girls' School. It became state property in 1945, and since 1993 the museum has ...
Varna necropolis, grave offerings on exhibit at the Varna Museum. The site was accidentally discovered in October 1972 by excavator operator Raycho Marinov. The first person to value the significant historical meaning was Dimitar Zlatarski, the creator of the Dalgopol Historical Museum, when he was called by the locals to examine what they had found earlier that day.
The Varna culture was a Chalcolithic culture of northeastern Bulgaria, dated c. 4500 BC, [1] [2] contemporary and closely related with the Gumelnița culture. The oldest golden artifacts in the world (4600 BC - 4200 BC) were found in the Necropolis of Varna. These artefacts are on display in the Varna Archaeological Museum. [3] [4] [5]
1885 – Euxinograd palace built near Varna. 1886 – Dormition of the Mother of God Cathedral, Varna built. 1888 Varna Archaeological Museum founded. Population: 25,256. [3] 1892 – Bulgarian Steamship Company in business. 1900 – Machine School for the Navy relocated to Varna.
City landmarks include the Varna Archaeological Museum, exhibiting the Gold of Varna, the Roman Baths, the Battle of Varna Park Museum, the Naval Museum in the Italianate Villa Assareto displaying the museum ship Drazki torpedo boat, the Museum of Ethnography in an Ottoman-period compound featuring the life of local urban dwellers, fisherfolk ...
Museum of New History of Varna: 1851 [10] Saint Nicholas church: 1859-1865 [11] Ethnographic museum: 1860 [12] Stefanidi's house: 1862 [13] St. Michael church: 1862 [14]
Hermann and Karel Škorpil, Varna Archaeological Museum. Václav Hermenegild Škorpil (Bulgarian: Вацлав Херменгилд Шкорпил; 8 February 1858 – 25 June 1923) was an archaeologist and museum worker credited along with his brother Karel with the establishment of those two disciplines in Bulgaria, as well as a geologist, botanist, architect and librarian.
Varna Archaeological Museum; B. Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery; D. Bulgarian torpedo boat Drazki; M. Museum of Medicine History; V. Varna Aquarium This ...