Ethnographic Museum Photo: Museum of Ethnography

Ethnographic Museum of Varna – one of the most amusing of the marine museums of the capital. It is located in a building built around 1860, which looks like a typical Renaissance building. The Museum was opened relatively recently, in 1974.

Here presents the life and culture of the population of Varna region in all its diversity. The time period covered by the exhibit of the Museum – the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th.

The first floor is occupied by the exhibition showcasing key types of country crafts – animal husbandry and farming, beekeeping, fishing, viticulture. Individual attention such Handicrafts as melnicoe, cooperage, skornicka and weaving.

One of the interesting Museum exhibits can be called Rallo – old, small size primitive tool, which used for loosening soil. On a new plow. Also shown are the vessels in which they kept their grain, and shape for baking bread. In the same hall you can listen to the lecture about key employment practices in times of sowing and reaping.

The second floor has a collection of folk costumes. The clothing of the population in each district is distinguished by a great diversity in mind the complex processes of migration, which were typical of the 18th and 19th centuries. It exhibits the costumes belonging to major ethnographic groups of the area – not only local residents but also immigrants from Asia Minor, Macedonia and Thrace. The most memorable look of ceremonial costumes.

A special place in the Museum, there are exhibits devoted to the wedding rituals of these edges.

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