Ethnographic Museum Berkovitsa
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Ethnographic Museum, located in the town of Berkovitsa truly be called a repository of cultural monuments (both material and spiritual) of the city and the region. It is located in the House serbiyan (second name "Syrbinskata Kyshtym" - in honor of one of the local families), traditional urban architecture of an old mansion.

Part of the collections of the museum presents the various ceramics, made in a special style Berkowitz, various carpets masters of the neighboring town of Chiprovtsi, costumes karakachan (small people living in the local mountains), dress fashionistas 20s. Nineteenth century. In addition, visitors can learn the secrets of different traditional crafts that once thrived in the city: presented the life and working conditions of artists of pottery, tinkers, shelkopryadilschikov etc.

Of interest to visitors to the museum is the device bath, especially a method of heating the water: on one wall hung two pitchers of clay, and at this point in the kitchen, stoked the furnace wall, thus heated, and the water in the jugs. In addition, the preserved ceramic sewage water drainage and an old kitchen sink for dishes.

A ticket to the ethnographic museum allows tourists to visit two more interesting places for guests. The first - the house-museum of the poet Ivan Vazov, which is located within walking distance from the Museum of Ethnography. Here the poet lived and worked during the 1879-1880 biennium. The house was built in the early nineteenth century .; for, in 1964, he officially declared an architectural monument of culture of national significance. After touring the two museums you can visit the town's art gallery, which is located in the courtyard of the church named after St. Nicholas. It exhibits more than 1,400 works of art - a collection of different genres, such as drawing, cartoon, sculpture and so on. D.

Ethnographic Museum is often host to temporary exhibitions and expositions. Here, concerts, book presentations, demonstrate crafts. This place is listed as hundreds of national tourism destinations in Bulgaria.

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