Bulgarian Learning Community and Resources

The process of exploring the culture and language of a country undoubtedly involves visiting museums. Usually, when we are abroad, we first go to the biggest and most famous museums that we have found on the Internet.   

In this article, however, I present to you a few locations that are not trivial, but at the same time will give you an interesting perspective on culture and cultural heritage in Bulgaria.  

Let's have a walk through a few places within the country, reading the following lines. 



The museum tells the story of one of the most popular symbols of Bulgaria – the “yogurt”. It opened its doors in 2007 in the village of Studen Izvor. The place was chosen because here was born the discoverer of the bacterium typical of Bulgarian yogurt - Lactobacillus Bulgaricus.  

The building is a typical house from the 19th century, and on the lower floor, you can see both traditional costumes from that period, as well as appliances and tools related to old methods of yogurt production and storage. The second floor tells the modern history of this product - from its extraction, through fermentation, and all the way to our refrigerators.



Just 20 km from Varna is the Beloslav Lake. The first glass factory in Bulgaria was opened on its shore in 1893. Today, apart from being a factory, the building has been turned into a museum. 

The museum strives to preserve and develop the traditional methods used in the production of Beloslav glass.  

You can enter the workshop with the furnaces, where, without interrupting the workflow, a few-minute demonstration is done - hand-blown products are made.  

Visitors are also offered the opportunity to enter a "glass cave" - a glass furnace attractively adapted to check into its depths.  

As a visitor, you can transform yourself into an artist using the glassware provided by the museum. Anyone can hand decorate their own object with transparent paints and take it home as a memento of their visit. 



By visiting this museum, you will be able to become a part of the world of former miners for a little while. The museum is the only one of its kind in the Balkans and is in the galleries of an old mine where brown coal was mined.

It houses the petrified "tree of happiness" at the entrance to the mine - the talisman of the miners who touched it upon entry for good luck. As a visitor, you can find out why there was a real stall in the galleries and get in your hand authentic miners' knives.  

Underground temperatures are not high for sure, so it is good to dress well before visiting the museum.



The Ostrich Museum is located on a farm in the village of Brestnitsa. 

The museum welcomes tourists on all days of the week. Guests can see live the ostriches and the way they are raised on the farm.  

There is an exhibition that presents the biology of the species and more information about the natural habitat. You can buy fresh eggs and engraved shells at the museum's shop. 



The Museum of Art of the Socialist Period opened on 19 September 2011. It presents works from the period of socialist rule in Bulgaria (1944-1989).   

It consists of a park, an exhibition hall, and a video room, and right from the entrance of the museum you are greeted by a Petolchka, the original that decorated the Party House in the interval 1954-1984.  

In the park, there are numerous busts and monuments of prominent communists, and in the video room documentaries talk about what life was like at that time.   

Despite the different opinions of people living at that time, it is interesting to get to know this era that marked the history of Bulgaria. 


Is there anyone in the community here who has already visited one of these museums? Let us know in the comments below.

Reneta, OLS Community Manager – Bulgarian