Located in the premises of the Royal Palace, a grand building in the capital city of Bulgaria, the Ethnographic Museum, Sofia, has a large array of collections. The museum, popular as the National Ethnographic Museum, brings forward the history, culture and heritage of the city of Sofia and also of Bulgaria.
The Ethnographic Museum, Sofia, organizes several exhibitions of the stored commodities in Bulgaria and abroad, either independently or in collaboration with other museums. The exhibition area of the Ethnographic Museum in Sofia is about 900 square metres and there are about 50,000 collections displayed in this area.
The Ethnographic Museum, Sofia, is housed in the northeastern wing of the Royal Palace, which was designed between 1894 and 1895 by Austrian architect Fredrik Gryunanger. He was a renowned architect of the time and was in the court of King Ferdinand. The exhibits in the Ethnographic Museum of Sofia are organized under several headings. Some of them are:
|
- Copper Items
- Goldsmithery
- Carpets
- Foreign Art
- Clothes
- Woodcarving
- Fabrics and Embroideries
- Agriculture
- Ceramics
- Home Furnishing
The Ethnographic Museum of Sofia has carved a niche for itself among the most important museums of the world. It is quite popular with the tourists from across the globe. The museum is frequented by innumerable tourists all through the year.
Following is the contact detail of the Museum of Ethnography in Sofia:
National Ethnographic Museum
"Al. Batenberg" Sq. No. 1
Sofia 1000
Sofia City District
Bulgaria
|
