Regional Ethnographic Museum
Bulgarian folk culture displayed in the Kuyumdzhioglu House, a landmark of Plovdiv's Old Town.
The museum occupies the Kuyumdzhioglu House, built in 1847 for the merchant Argir Kuyumdzhioglu and generally regarded as the finest surviving example of the Plovdiv symmetrical Revival house. Attributed to the master builder Hadzhi Georgi Stanchovski, it has a projecting upper storey carried on timber, an undulating pediment, painted decoration and carved wooden ceilings. The house was declared a monument of culture, restored, and opened as a museum of the city and the Rhodope region in 1938.
Its collections now exceed sixty thousand items, making it the second largest specialist ethnographic museum in Bulgaria. The permanent display is arranged over several halls and covers farming, stock-rearing, viticulture, crafts such as coppersmithing and pottery, and the trade in rose oil and textiles that built Plovdiv's wealth, together with costume, jewellery, musical instruments and furnished domestic interiors. Temporary exhibitions, concerts in the courtyard and workshop programmes are held through the year.
Highlights
- Kuyumdzhioglu House of 1847, a Plovdiv Revival landmark
- Carved wooden ceilings and painted interior decoration
- More than sixty thousand items of folk culture
- Halls on crafts, costume, rose oil and viticulture
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