Historical Museum Etropole
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Historical Museum Etropole is in Bulgaria at a distance of 80 kilometers to the northeast of Sofia and 13 kilometers from the town of Pravets. The first exposition of the museum was presented to the public in 1958. In 1968 the building was renovated Police Department Ottoman called Konak. The building Konaka were placed new collections.

Etropole Historical Museum is located in a mansion built in the years 1853-1870. The museum has ten rooms, which accommodate different exposure time. The visitors presented monuments preserved from the Bronze Age. They belong in 3-2 centuries BC. e. and indicate the appearance of people in the valley Etropolskoy and resettlement. The archaeological hall you can get acquainted with the objects to be Thracians: stone axes, hammers, all sorts of vessels, as well as clay urns and amphorae.

In the next room is a collection of ornaments 5-4 centuries BC. e., there are rings, brooches, breastplates of gold, and a vessel for storing fragrant ointments - alabaster glass.

Ethnographic exhibition reserved four rooms. They can see the clothes, jewelry and household items belonging to the 19th century, art products and crafts from the 16th to the 20th century, as well as documents and photographs. The stands shown tools that belonged to the miners of the past: miner's lamps, pliers, shovels and wooden ladders. You can also look at the work of local craftsmen, such as blacksmiths and gunsmiths, such as skilled knives.

The exposition of the central hall on one of the floors exposed metal buckle pair of national female costume, pafty decorated with mother of pearl and filigree ornaments. There's also presented gold bracelets, earrings and rings by local artists and costumes karakachan (Greek-speaking ethnic group living in the mountains of the area).

In other museum exhibitions shown monuments etropolskoy school writing ages 16-17, introducing the regional development of education, as well as medals, weapons, photographs and documents telling about wars of national liberation and unification of Bulgaria.

House family Arnaudova became a branch of the museum. They recreated the situation mid-19th century, the time of the sunset of the Bulgarian Revival.

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