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The museum is open from Monday to Sunday, from 09:00 to 17:30
Hristo Botev Square 2
The museum is open from Monday to Sunday, from 09:00 to 17:30
Hristo Botev Square 2

The Ethnographic-Revival complex “St. Sofronii Vrachanski”

The Ethnographic-Revival Complex

“St. Sofronii Vrachanski”

          The Ethnographic-Revival complex “St. Sofronii Vrachanski” covers an area of 0,55 ha, with three National Revival – style houses located there, which were built in the distinctive architectural style for that region, as well as two public buildings from the same period – the Hadjitoshevs’ family house, Ivan Zambin’s house, Grigoriya Naydenov’s house, the building of the “Vaznesenie” School from the Bulgarian Revival period and the “Sv. Vaznesenie” Church.  All of them have been declared architectural and historical monuments of culture.

         The complex was built in stages.  In 1976 the “Dimitraki Hazdjitoshev” museum was opened to the public.

         After the restoration work was completed in the mid 1980s, the following exhibitions were inaugurated – the building of “Vaznesenie” School from the Bulgarian Revival period, Ivan Zambin MuseumGrigoriya Naydenov MuseumSv. Vaznesenie Church, as well as the courtyards.  Some premises and a shelter were built as an extension with the specific purpose of showing traditional transport vehicles and farm equipment.  The complex was inaugurated on 25 May 1986.

      The exhibitions accommodated in the Ethnographic-Revival Complex “St. Sofronii Vrachanski” show the most distinctive features of the traditional popular culture of the population in Vratsa, its regional peculiarities and its unity with the common Bulgarian popular culture.  Built on the principle of historical continuity when revealing the ethnographic processes and phenomena, these exhibitions cover chronologically the time from the middle of the 19th c. and the first decades of the 20th c..