Earth and Man National Museum

The Earth and Man National Museum (Bulgarian: Национален музей „Земята и хората“, romanized Natsionalen muzey „Zemyata i horata“) is a mineralogical museum in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

The main entrance to the Earth and Man museum
The museum with Vitosha in the background

It's one of the biggest mineralogical museums in the world. It was founded on 30 December 1985 and opened for visitors on 19 June 1987. The museum is situated in a reconstructed and adapted historic building with an area of 4,000 m² (43056 square feet) constructed in the end of the 19th century (1896–1898). It has a number of exhibition halls, stock premises, laboratories, a video room and a conference room. Its collection covers 40% of all known naturally occurring minerals as well as man-made ceramics prepared by Bulgarian scientists.

Apart from its permanent expositions related to mineral diversity, the museum also often hosts exhibitions connected with various other topics as well as concerts of chamber music.

  • Large painting on left
  • Main hall inside museum
  • Large painting on right
  • Quartz, tourmaline
  • Amethyst geode
  • Petrified tree
  • Rose quartz
  • Large painting on right
  • „Duckling“
  • Benefactors
  • National Fund „13 Centuries of Bulgaria“
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