Historical Museum in the town of Batak was founded in 1956. To the museum complex is the building of the museum and the historic church of St. Weeks and museum-houses with Balinova and balls.

City History Museum - Cultural Research Institute, which carries out the state policy in the field of protection of historical and cultural values, as well as the development of museums in the municipality of Batak. On the basis of the historical museum in the city is held to coordinate all activities in the field of archeology, examination and presentation of not only the cultural heritage but also natural resources. All this enables the development of cultural tourism in Bulgaria.

The total area of ​​the museum - 900 square meters and are located on the territory of the exhibition with photographs and documentary materials, the original findings of different epochs - from antiquity to the Renaissance, as well as the period of April Uprising during the Russian-Turkish war. On the ground floor of the shelter reproduced Batak guerrillas. The total number of exhibits presented in the museum, more than 500.

House Museum Balinova №3 is the subject of the historical museum, added to architectural and cultural monuments of the country. The building was built around 1895. Tellingly, the walls of the house are painted, but such houses in Batak just a few, as is traditionally the walls left white. From 1918 to 1944 he lived here Secretary of the Working Youth Union and member of the Communist resistance against German occupation Trendafil Balin. Since 1968, the house was converted into a museum here today presented ethnographic exhibition: everyday life, customs and traditional way of life of the Bulgarians the late XIX - early XX centuries. In the courtyard of the building exposed to the only surviving furnace that was undeveloped in the yard.

House-Museum of balls which is also part of the museum complex, is the gallery "Boris Sharov," but there are no permanent displays. House Museum opened to the public only at the time of exposure of temporary exhibitions.

In any of the objects of Batak History Museum you can buy souvenirs, information materials, etc.