Historical Museum of Silistra is a chronology of the Bulgarian town in the northeastern part of the country. Silistra is located on the border with Romania on the Danube. The city is at a distance of 430 kilometres North-East of Sofia and 140 kilometers North-West from Varna.

Silistra was founded by the Romans, the original name of the settlement was Durostorum. The first records of it date back to the early 2nd century BC. In DUROSTONE born famous commander Flavius Aetius. Silistra Kiev Prince Svyatoslav Igorevich took in 969. Also, the city was repeatedly taken by the Russians during the Russo-Turkish wars.

In Silistra 11 January 1899 opened one of the first museums in the country, what led to the development of Bulgarian museums.

The Museum presents two exhibitions: archaeological and ethnographic. Ethnographic exhibits occupied 300 square meters and they show the culture and lifestyle of the surrounding area of Silistra and culture of Dobruja the mid 19th and early 20th centuries. This exhibition presents traditional costumes, original tools, masks "Breza", made for a winter ceremony, which was supposed to ensure health and fertility, as well as the masks mummers (local mummers).

Archaeological exposition occupied 400 square meters in a mansion built in the early 20th century. Contains monuments of the prehistoric period, ancient era and middle ages. There are, for example, solar stone watch Roman helmet mask with griffins of the same period, the chariot of a Roman magistrate of the 3rd century, column, on which is carved the name of Khan Omurtag, and a large collection of crosses tenth to thirteenth centuries.

In 1942, archaeologists have unearthed in Silistra ornate Roman tomb with wall paintings Dating from the 4th century BC