Historical Museum
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Historical Museum of Asenovgrad is located in the city center in a building constructed in 1895, which once housed the House of officers. The museum was founded in 1971 and has its exposition in three exhibition halls with a total area of ​​200 square meters. km. The collection contains about 1000 exhibits.

The first room is the section "Archaeology". It tells about the life of the region from the 7th millennium BC. e. Visitors can see the stone and bone tools, household items and cult pottery Neolithic times, a lot of prehistoric finds. Special attention should be found in the village Muldava pottery in the shape of a deer. Stone axes with holes carved from bone idols, ceramics and others. Are a clear illustration of the life of the local settlers in the Chalcolithic period. The exceptional discovery - a clay female idol, a symbol of fertility, arranged artistically deformed body parameters.

Carriers of Culture of the Bronze Age and later the Iron Age (Hallstatt culture) in this region is the Thracian tribe Besi. The museum of weapons for defense and attack, a collection of marble, bronze vessels, statues of gods and more. The exhibition dedicated to the Thracian period, you can see the dated I century BC. e. four-wheel chariot tomb with the rich and the deathbed gifts.

As a result of archeological excavations in Asen's Fortress, scientists have discovered a lot of things since the Middle Ages. In the section "Ethnography" presented costumes, jewelry, fabrics and household items.

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