Natural Science Museum in the village of Cherni Osam was founded in 1976 Cherni Osam - a village in the north of Bulgaria is situated on 175 km southeast of Sofia.

Ilia Iliev, a village teacher of biology, along with the students began collecting species of flora and fauna in 1965. At lessons Iliev with students dissected the different animals that live in the mountain Stara Planina. Over time, the biologist collection, which was exhibited in the school grew, and in 1976 it moved to a new location. And in early 1977 it formed a branch of the museum History of the town of Lovech, which received the status of the museum and has earned as an independent museum only in 1992.

Visitors to this site can discover a huge variety of the inhabitants of the Balkan Mountains. Since Cherni Osam is located in the "Central Balkan" (National Park), the Museum presented an exhibition of pictures of natural attractions of the area. Just a natural science museum houses more than 700 exhibits and presented about 25 of prepared animal. Each room carried by the sounds of different animals. Installation of the second floor will acquaint visitors with the habitat of animals such as wolves, chamois, wild boar, wild cat, deer, deer and other mammals.

Behind the glass are more than a dozen species of fish living in the local river, also exhibits the fish, which in nature is no longer there. Museum guests also have the opportunity to meet more than a dozen amphibian and reptile habitats which - the central part of Stara Planina. There is also a large collection of insects and exposure, in which about 120 bird species, including predators, habitat which - ponds and plains.

Visitors to the Museum of Nature and Science, if desired, can purchase brochures and postcards.

Cherni Osam is located near the Troyan Monastery. Guests have the opportunity to engage in the village not usual, and rural tourism, by the way, Cherni Osam is the starting point of the tourist route, leading to the base Ambaritsa. In addition, the village has courses for conductors - employees of the mountains.