Plovdiv Historical Museum
The Historical Museum in Plovdiv was founded in 1951 as a scientific and cultural institution that collects historical documents about the history of the city of Plovdiv for the period from the 15th to the 20th century and explored. It consists of several departments:
- The Bulgarian Rebirth exhibition is located at 1 Zanko Lavrenow Street in the old town of Plovdiv. Dimitar Georgiadi's house was built in 1848 and is one of the best examples of the Plovdiv symmetrical house. The exhibits date from the 16th to 18th centuries. Century when Plovdiv was one of the most beautiful cities in the Ottoman Empire . There are also weapons and other historical documents on the Bulgarian liberation struggle.
- The exhibition "Reunification of the Principality of Bulgaria with Eastern Rumelia " (Saedinenie Square 1) documents the struggle for reunification after the Treaty of Berlin in 1878 , which divided Bulgaria into two parts. This struggle was crowned with success on September 6, 1885, when reunification was declared in Plovdiv. The house that houses the exhibition was built as the parliament of Eastern Rumelia.
- In the house of Christo G. Danow (Mitropolit-Paisii-Straße 2) in the old town there is the exhibition “ Book Printing in Bulgaria”. The house was built in the middle of the 19th century. The founder of modern letterpress printing in Bulgaria - Christo Gruew Danow, lived here from 1866 until his death in 1911 . The publisher's office and library, along with numerous original editions, give a picture of the city as the center of letterpress printing in Bulgaria at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.