Archaeological Museum – Old Nessebar

The researches of archaeologists on the Nessebar peninsula and its water area in the last 40 years have revealed large collections of very significant historical monuments.
Nessebar is one of the most beautiful cities on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, and its history is thousands of years old. The numerous monuments make it very valuable for Bulgarian and European science and culture. Nessebar was founded by the Thracians at the end of the second millennium BC, at the end of the 6th century BC, Greek colonists made it a Greek city-state. Rome included the city in its empire in the 1st century BC, and in the 4th century Nessebar was within the borders of Byzantium. It was conquered by the Bulgarians in 812. Nessebar reached its heyday in the 13th and 14th centuries. It fell under the rule of the Ottoman Turks together with the capital of Byzantium – Constantinople in 1453, and in 1878 it met the Russian troops in the Russo-Turkish war.
A large part of them from everything found during the archaeological expeditions in the last 40 years can be seen as exhibits in the new Archaeological Museum of Nessebar. The exhibition area of the museum consists of a lobby and four halls.