Archeological Museum

The Bulgarian Archeological Museum was built in 1879 and is now currently restored – a renovation which began in 1992. The interior of the museum is now open and airy, well lit and full of artifacts. Most of the pieces are from Thracian, Greek and Roman periods, including the Vulchitrun Treasure - a 12.5kg (27 lb) collection of solid golden objects of Thracian origin.The Vulchitrun treasure is a collection of 13 decorated and strangely shaped vessels of solid gold, most probably used by a King-Priest during Thracian religious rituals. It is located in a guarded room of its own.

Apart from the antiquities, the Bulgarian Archeological Museum is quite impressive, originally a late-15th century mosque called the Buyuk Djamiya (Great Mosque), which is covered with vines and ivy. A common protest of the Bulgarian museum in the past had been that most of its more than 200 000 pieces had been removed and made unavailable for public viewing, and unfortuantely this had barely changed.
The Bulgarian Archaeological Museum in Sofia houses a huge collection of archaeological findings from all Bulgaria in four sections: Prehistory, Antiquity, Middle Ages and Coins.