Ethnography

This exhibition will introduce you to the Bulgarian national crafts, traditions, and inspirations. You will walk through various cultural practices in the Bulgarian home and professional life from the end…

Stone Affair

Ellen Stone was an American protestant missionary in Bansko. She was kidnapped by IMORO who planned an ambush on one of her travels. The leaders of the organization looked for…

IMORO

Internal Macedonia-Еdirne Revolutionary Organization or for short VMORO in Bulgarian, was created in Thessaloniki in 1893. The founders were Bulgarians from various regions in Macedonia. Their idea was to liberate…

Bishop Nathaniel

Bishop Nathaniel of Ochrid or MItropolit Natanail was the official representative of the Bulgarian exarchate. He was the chairman of the Gorna Dzhumaya Committee ‘Edinstvo’ which means Unity. The Committee…

Short liberation

In the Pirin region, Blagoevgrad was the only town that was briefly liberated from the Ottoman Empire in February 1878. The so-called first liberation was short-lived until the summer of…

Georgi Izmirliev

The April Uprising of 1876 was an organized web of insurrections organized by Bulgarians against the Ottoman Empire. The attempt for an uprising in the Blagoevgrad region failed because of…