Regional history Museum in Ruse is one of the most important cultural institutions in Bulgaria. Its activities the Museum provides not only in Ruse and the region, but also outside them, in Razgrad and Silistra.

The historical Museum was opened in 1904 January 1 of the Royal decree on the basis of the collections of the archaeological and natural science exhibits that were collected and stored in a boys school. Prince Boris I. Gradually the Museum Fund was increased in 1952 he declared regional, and in 2000 – regional. Now the Museum is housed in a historic building of the regional government, built in the late 19th century, Alexander Battenberg square. The Museum contains more than 130 thousand exhibits.

The Museum has several branches (historical city Museum, Museum of the Pantheon of heroes of the Renaissance, the Museum "City life"), he also unites the exhibition under the open sky: the regional historical Museum of Rousse include the medieval town of Cherven, the ruins of the ancient fortress of Sexaginta Prista, and of the famous Ivanovo rock churches.

The Museum includes a permanent exhibition of historical, ethnographic, archaeological nature. Visitors can appreciate the collection of bones of mammoths and mastodons, artefacts of prehistoric people; prehistoric sculpture and ceramics; medieval frescoes and Bohr ancient Thracian treasure, Dating from the 4th century BC (a ritual wine set, made of silver with gilding). Here are the finds from archaeological excavations of castles Sexaginta Prista, Atrus and Cherven; ritual and domestic artifacts; ethnographic collections of clothes and utensils of the citizens of the late 19th – early 20th centuries; personal belongings of the representatives of the revolutionary liberation movement; the numismatic collection and many more. The materials of the Museum illustrate the history of the region from prehistoric times to the present.

Often the Museum organizes scientific meetings, conferences, seminars and schools, presentations of new discoveries and archaeological finds, as well as theatrical performances.