Ethnographical museum
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Ethnographic Museum in Balchik is situated in the immediate vicinity of the city's historical museum. The exposition is located in a beautifully restored two-storey building in the Renaissance style, built in the 60s of the 19th century. The museum fund totals more than 1,500 items, reflecting features of everyday life and culture of the inhabitants of the local region: tools, furniture, articles of iron and copper, and so on. D. The exhibition is devoted to various home exercises (wood carving, blacksmithing, production of ceramic products), here You can also see examples of traditional folk costumes, jewelry, embroidered fabric much more.

On the ground floor there is an exhibition dedicated to the crafts and trades. Guests to the museum can see the exhibition woodworking tools (drills, planers etc.), And all that was necessary to forge XVIIIveke (bellows, tongs, anvil, hammers). Metal pots, copper pots, pans, trays, which are engaged in manufacture of blacksmiths are also presented as exhibits.

In addition, the museum renovated home sewing workshop. From the exhibits in this room - tailor tools: scissors, rulers, thimbles, irons, ribbons to decorate clothing. Manufacture of leather products not without special scrapers to clean the skin, its tools for stretching and drying and others.

On the second floor of the complex will impress visitors an abundance of colors and patterns that adorn the national holiday attire. Weaving - one of the oldest activities in Bulgaria. The exhibition presents equipment used mistresses: spinning wheels, horizontal loom, and more. The windows are placed headdresses, pendants, pins, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, belts with metal buckles and so on. D.

At the entrance to the museum is a small well-kept garden, blending in with the architectural appearance of the building.

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