The house-museum Georgi Velchev is dedicated to the life and work of the Bulgarian artist who worked mainly in the genre of portraiture and landscape. A favorite subject of the artist were Bulgarian coast, lapped by the waves of a raging gusty winds.

Velchev was born in Varna in 1891, here in the drawing school received an elementary education on the part of the painting, after the war he moved to France, where he studied with eminent professors of the Academy of Painting - Bonnard and Amanda. Georgi Velchev canvases were exhibited in addition to Bulgaria in Karlsruhe and Wiesbaden. For seven years, the artist traveled to America, visited Hawaii and went to Australia. Since 1931 began to live again in his homeland, where he died in 1955.

The home of the artist in 1961, was presented to the administration of Varna Velchev relatives - a brother and sister Vladimir peacock. In the same year in the building of a memorial museum. In 1995, the museum-house underwent a complete renovation, and the artist's paintings were mostly restored.

The museum features more than 240 paintings by the artist, of which 50 are in the permanent exhibition of the house-museum. In addition to the permanent exhibition, there is a monthly exhibitions of the classics of Bulgarian art and the most distinguished representatives of the artistic elite of modern Bulgaria. House Museum is also involved in several international cultural projects. In particular, the museum serves as the initiator of the festival "August in Art", dedicated to contemporary art.