Museum of Speleology in the town of Chepelare is the only such museum in Bulgaria and one of the few in Europe. Its history began in 1950, when the purpose of exploring caves in the Rhodopes - Uhlovitsa, Devil's Throat, Jagodina and other - was created by the local speleological club. In 1968 he opened a small exhibition, which was presented climbing equipment, charts and tables, as well as ceramics and bones found in the underground passages. In 1970, with support from the National Museum of natural sciences, the Institute of Zoology and the Sofia University St. Clement Orhidskogo began the scientific study of Rhodope caves. Ten years later, it was created only one of its kind in Bulgaria Museum of Rhodope Karst. In 1983 it was converted into a Museum of Speleology and Bulgarian Karst.

The museum has fixed assets, including 9,400 exhibits, auxiliary fund of 7,100 exhibits and exchange fund, there were 170 exhibits. The museum library contains 730 volumes of scientific literature. The total exhibition area of ​​870 square meters. meters. The exhibition includes the following sections: "Surface and underground karst", "Mineralogy, geology and petrography", "Biospeleologiya", "Cave archeology" and "Cave paleontology."

In the hall of "Mineralogy, geology and petrography," a collection of minerals found in the Rhodopes: cave minerals, igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, and others. The exhibition "Surface and underground karst" includes karst formations period Triassic, salt, gypsum, limestone, Jurassic and t. e. You can also see the cave stalactites and stalagmites, cave pearls, crystals.

Division "Biospeleologiya" a collection of samples of representatives of cave flora and fauna. There are 40 species of troglobionts - animals permanently living in caves, and 10 species of the order of bats (bats). In the hall of "Cave paleontology" Visitors to the museum can see the remains of the animals of the Tertiary period: teeth, skull and limb bones of cave bear, the lower jaw leopard teeth and upper jaw of a rhinoceros skeleton of a wild horse, and so on. D. The collection "Cave archeology" contains about 100 exhibits of Paleolithic and Chalcolithic found in caves.