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What started as an ethnographic collection turned into Gorna Oriahovitsa’s history museum in 1962. The building today has exhibition area of 500 sq m.

Neolithic ceramics dishes, ancient coins, folklore costumes, icons, revival period documents and photographs from Gorna Oriahovitsa can all be explored there.

Exhibition items exceed 10 000 and the museum’s library contains nearly 5000 works. In 2006, the museum presented its Vices expositions, displaying traditions connected to some forbidden temptations.

Other collections present old radios and communication devices. Gorna Oriahovitsa’s museum also has a collection of 600 clocks.

The eight collection part of the Vice series is to see popularity in the summer of 2008. Four other theme exhibitions are to take place.

Gorna Oriahovitsa museum has several branches among which the ethnographic collection of Dolna Oriahovitsa and Asen Raztsvetnikov memorial house in the village of Draganovo.

The museum is situated in the central part of town, on 1 Antim Purvi street. It welcomes visitors each day from Monday to Friday from 8.30 am to 4.30 pm. To learn more call 0618/ 2 37 38.