Ethnographic Museum Photo: Museum of Ethnography

The ethnographic Museum is the exhibition, which is part of the Regional historical Museum in Pazardjik. The exhibition is located in one of the biggest urban Renaissance buildings, which was built in 1850 in the style of Baroque. The house belonged to a local wealthy merchant Nikola Christovich. Currently the building is an architectural and artistic monument of culture of national significance.

Ethnographic exhibition was opened to visitors in 1974. Exposition telling about the rich spiritual life and the material culture of the population of Pazardzhik until the mid XX century, is 18 spaces. On the first floor of the Museum presents the architecture of residential and public buildings. Visitors can see photographs and models of houses from different localities of the region. In the center of the room is a large map of the region of Pazardzhik. Three other rooms you can see samples of the interior of a typical rural houses and the equipment used for the processing of cotton, flax, hemp and wool – practice specific to this field. The course focuses on the homemade loom. The Museum has also recreated a workshop for the production of shoes during the beginning of the twentieth century. The exhibition presents the tools used by master shoemaker. In other areas of the complex are tailoring and fur Atelier.

On the second floor of the Museum visitors can see the living room and study typical representatives of urban residents. All items exhibited here is the original one that once belonged to the residents of Pazardzhik. In another room recreates the life of a wealthy family, here the emphasis is on things brought from abroad: plush duvets, crystal mirror, etc. Interest is a reproduction of a portrait of the master of the house N. Christ (the original is written by the famous Bulgarian artist Stanislav Dospevski). The Museum collection includes samples of national clothes and accessories: expensive bracelets, rings, earrings, belt buckles, etc.

About folk customs and festivals tell photographs, written sources and various household items. The exhibition, dedicated to the folklore, you can see musical instruments, typical for the region of Pazardzhik, and more.

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