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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]
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 ...
1878 – Varna becomes part of newly restored independent Bulgaria per Treaty of Berlin (1878) [3] [5] 1883 – Orient Express railway begins operating. [citation needed] 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]
The Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen-Karanovo VI complex was a Chalcolithic cultural complex of the fifth millennium BC located in the eastern Balkans, comprising the Gumelnița, Kodžadermen and Karanovo cultures. It is also aggregated with the Varna culture. It formed part of the broader cultural complex known as Old Europe.
National Archaeological Museum (Bulgaria) National Gallery for Foreign Art; National Historical Museum (Bulgaria) National Museum of Military History (Bulgaria) National Museum of Natural History (Bulgaria) National Polytechnical Museum; National Transport Museum, Bulgaria; Neolithic Dwellings Museum; Nesebar Archaeological Museum; Pazardzhik ...
Varna Archaeological Museum; B. Boris Georgiev City Art Gallery; D. Bulgarian torpedo boat Drazki; M. Museum of Medicine History; V. Varna Aquarium This ...