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National Institute of Archaeology with Museum

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National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum
Phone:
+359 2 988 2406

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
Monday10am - 5pm
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


The National Archaeological Museum is an archaeological museum in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It occupies the building of the largest and oldest former Ottoman mosque in the city, originally known as Koca Mahmut Paşa Camii. The construction started in 1451 under grand vizier Veli Mahmud Pasha but due to his death in 1474 the mosque has been completed in 1494. The museum was established as a separate entity in 1893 as the National Museum directed by Czech Václav Dobruský with its headquarters in the former mosque that previously housed the National Library between 1880 and 1893. The museum was officially opened and inaugurated in 1905, as by then all archaeological exhibits previously kept all over the city were moved there, in the presence of Knyaz Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Minister of Enlightenment Ivan Shishmanov. Several additional halls and administrative buildings of the museum were constructed in the following years, which continues to use the historic stone building of the old mosque despite the often unfavourable conditions, notably the humidity in the summer. The museum has five exhibition halls: Central Hall, Prehistory, Middle Ages, Treasure, and a special temporary exhibition. It is managed by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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