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National Museum of Natural History
1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd
1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Phone: (+359 2) 9874195
— Museum’s leaflet [PDF]
1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd
1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Phone: (+359 2) 9874195
— Museum’s leaflet [PDF]
Exhibitions
The museum exhibitions occupy 15 halls on 4 floors. It exhibits the Caroline parrot, which became extinct world-wide, the monk seal, bearded vulture, little bustard, grey and maiden crane, steppe viper, German sturgeon, all of which extinct in Bulgaria. In recent years several dioramas were added to the exhibitions depicting the live nature of the Arctic (white bears and seals), Africa (black panther), Asia (tiger) and South American tropical forest (jaguar, ara parrots, tamarine monkeys). Other large mammals recently exhibited are the white rhinoceros, the Himalayan bear, cheetahs, buffalos.
Hall 7 — Fishes. Photo: (c) S. Abadjiev
Hall 4 — Mineralogy. Photo: (c) S. Abadjiev
Hall 15 — Non-insect invertebrates. Photo: (c) S. Abadjiev
Hall 8 — Birds. Photo: (c) S. Abadjiev
The visitors are intrigued by one of the last pure-bred aurochs found in nature, the brown bear proclaimed as the largest in Europe, the rare small panda, the beautiful birds of paradise, toucans, the Californian condor extinct in the wild nature, the different types of pheasants with splendid feathers, the giant African tortoise, the blind cave fish from America, the Periophtalmus fish, which can move on land as well.
In the Asenovgrad branch the visitors can see casts of a Deinotherium skeleton, one of the largest terrestrial mammals of all times, 6.80 m long and 4.50 m tall. There are also skeletons of sabertooth tiger, hipparions, antelopes, mastodons, monkeys.
In the Asenovgrad branch the visitors can see casts of a Deinotherium skeleton, one of the largest terrestrial mammals of all times, 6.80 m long and 4.50 m tall. There are also skeletons of sabertooth tiger, hipparions, antelopes, mastodons, monkeys.