Housemuseum "Hristo Danov"

Housemuseum
"Hristo Danov"
- exposition "Boookpublishing" -

Address:	"Mitropolit paisii" Str. No. 2 Plovdiv Plovdiv District Bulgaria
TEL:	Internatinal Dialing Code: 359 (0)32-629-405:Curator
Fax:	-
E-mail:	hm_plovdiv@mail.bg
URL:	http://www.historymuseumplovdiv.com

Opening Hours Admission Access Town Info Exhibitions Info Museum History

Exhibitions

History- Bulgarian Revival, House Museum

Go to "Exhibitions Info"

Opening Hours

Open	Summer Time: 09:00 - 17:30 Winter time: 09:00 - 17:00
Closed	Saturday and Sunday

Others

Visits during closing hours: possible with appointment

Admission

Adult	1.00 lv.
Student	0.50 lv.
Child	Up to 7 years old	free
Others	• Senior: 1.00 lv.

Guide/Lecture	• Bulgarian	2.00 lv.
Guide/Lecture	• Foreign Languages	-

Others

Access to Museum

From nearby Regional Center to Town

• from Sofia: by bus and by train
• from Bourgas: by bus or by train

From Bus Station/Railway Station in Town

The museum is in the city center-in the beginning of the old city, near the mosque "Jumaya" and the church "holy virgin ".

Town Information

The house-museum "Hristo Danov" is located in the old city, where stand a lot of museums and galleries. Here. On the area of three hills you can also see many artifacts from antiquity, middle ages and revival.

Exhibitions Information

Number of Collection	4 400
Exhibition Area	200 m²

The exact setting of Hristo G. Danov’ study is reproduced, remake of a class room from the time of the Bulgarian national revival is arranged. In the extension of the house museum, printing equipment, Platen-machine type, is exposed, and a bookshop with training aids and books is rebuilt in the style of the one-time bookshops.

The Book publishing Section of the museum keeps over 4000 volumes of books, unique publications, geographic maps, everyday life items and archive documents of the great book publisher Hristo G. Danov. A significant part of the correspondence of his publishing house has been also preserved.

printing-press "American "

library

picture "snow white"

Museum History

class room

school appliance

Year of Establishment	1985 years
Founder	Petko Velichkov

This building was erected in the beginning of the 19th century and is typical of the architecture of the Bulgarian national revival. The main facade is formed with a four-column wicket, which supports a richly decorated rocker gable. The fundaments are made of stone and stand on the vertical rocks of Taximtepe (The Taxim Hill). The one-floor housing section is an example of the widely spread Plovdiv symmetric house. The central section is occupied by a celebration salon with colour painted walls and a ceiling with carved composition The Sun. The passage from the ceiling towards the walls is lavishly drawn: 12 medallions with landscapes and 12 baskets with flowers follow in turns. From 1868 till his death in 1911 here lived the founder of the organized book publishing in Bulgaria Hristo Gruev Danov with his family.