Plovdiv Archaeological Museum

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The Regional Archaeological Museum in Plovdiv ( Bulgarian Регионален археологически музей Пловдив , Regional Archaeological Museum, or RAM for short) was founded in 1882 as the Folk Museum of Eastern Rumelia . Since 1928 it has been located at Saedinenie 1 in the building of a former tax agency owned by the Ministry of Finance.

The museum houses exhibits from the prehistoric era , the Thracians , Greeks , Romans , the Middle Ages and the Bulgarian Revival period, as well as a rich numismatic collection.

Probably the most famous exhibit in the museum is the Panagyurishte gold treasure , a treasure made of 9 gold vessels found in 1949.

The numismatic collection consists of around 60,000 coins from the 6th century BC. Until the 20th century AD

literature

  • Svetlin Bosilkov (Red.): Archeologičeski muzej Plovdiv. Bŭlgarski chudožnik, Sofia 1964, OCLC 163698192 .
  • Kostadin Kisov, Ilja Prokopov, Konstantin Docev: Numizmaticnoto bogatstvo na Archeologiceski Muzej Plovdiv = Numismatic riches of Archaeological Museum Plovdiv. Hemus, Sofia 1998, ISBN 954-8956-1-2 .

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Coordinates: 42 ° 9 ′ 5.4 "  N , 24 ° 44 ′ 41.9"  E