Regional Historical Museum in the city of Rousse - one of the most important cultural institutions in Bulgaria. Museum carries out its activities not only in Rousse and the region, but also beyond - in Razgrad and Silistra.

Historical Museum was opened in 1904 January 1 to the imperial decree on the basis of a collection of archaeological and natural science exhibits that were collected and stored in the men's School. Prince Boris I. Gradually museum fund increased in 1952, he declared the regional, and in 2000 - Regional. Now the museum is located in a historic building of the regional government, which was built in the late 19th century, the square Alexander Battenberg. The museum contains more than 130 thousand exhibits.

The museum has several branches (the historical City Museum, Museum of the Pantheon of heroes of the Renaissance, the museum "City Life"), he also brings together the exhibition under the open sky: a regional-historical museum of Ruse are the medieval town of Cherven, the ruins of an ancient fortress Sexaginta Priest and the famous rock of Ivanovo churches.

The museum has permanent exhibition of historical, ethnographic, archaeological. Visitors can appreciate the collection of bones of mammoths and mastodons, prehistoric humans household items; prehistoric sculpture and ceramics; medieval frescoes and Borovsky Thracian treasure, dating from the 4th century BC (ritual wine service in silver with gold). Here are the finds from the archaeological site of castles Sexaginta Priest, Yatrus and worms; ritual and household artifacts; ethnographic collections of clothes and dishes citizens of the late 19th - early 20th centuries; personal belongings of the representatives of the revolutionary liberation movement; numismatic collection and much more. Materials Museum showcase the history of the region from prehistoric times to the present.

Most are held in the Museum of scientific meetings, conferences, workshops and schools, presentations of new discoveries and archaeological finds, as well as theater performances.