Buyuk Mosque - is devyatikupolny temple, built in 1494. The mosque was erected on the foundations of an ancient Christian monastery. This beautiful building, whose walls and ivy vine. Over the years, it housed: a hospital, a library, a printing house. Currently this building is the oldest in Bulgaria Archaeological Museum, founded in 1879.

Over the years the museum has assembled an impressive size of the exposure, which currently has more than 55 thousand different items. In addition, there is a rich collection of coins in the country - more than one million samples.

The first floor is dedicated to the Archaeological Museum of antiquities Thracian, Roman, Greek and Byzantine periods of Bulgarian history. This mosaic patterns of Hagia Sophia early Christian times, fragments of Greek and Roman tombs - noblemen sarcophagi, tombstones (for example, discovered during archaeological excavations in Sofia Plate III-IV centuries and the Roman sarcophagus of II-III centuries, found in near the town of Lovech), stag statue of bronze, dated VIII century BC. e. and etc.

One of the main museum treasures in this exhibition - Vulchitrunskoe treasure - thirteen gold Thracian vessels weighing 12, 5 kilograms. Historians believe that the ancient priests used them for ritual purposes. The exhibits are presented in a separate protected area.

The collection of the first floor is also found in the town of Stara Zagora statue of the god Apollo. It is made of bronze and covered with gold leaf. There is no statue of the leg and both arms. Bulgarian scientists believe that the sculptor was a student of the great Greek master Praxiteles. It is of interest and the statue "Resting Satyr". It was discovered in the village of Riben, near the town of Pleven. It is assumed that it is a replica of one of the sculptures of Praxiteles.

The big impression on visitors makes a copy of the Madara Horseman statue, made in full size. Original carved into the rock near the village of Madara.

On the second floor of the museum samples of the Neolithic period: tools, pottery, weapons, etc. Here you can also see a collection of icons and fragments of ancient frescoes.