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Kyustendil  is a town with millenium tradition and history. Its healing mineral water springs offer great conditions for cure and rest. It is rich of sights date back to Antiquity up to our days-Ancient Roman therms, Hisarluka Fortress, Pirgova Tower, the mosques "Fatih Mehmed" and "Ahmed bey". 20 km. aside is the Osogovo mountain area "Tri buki" with a hotel, sport and ski base.

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Permanent archeological exposition is set up in the exhibition hall "Asklepius" in the historic museum’s yard. Presented exhibitions and their wide chronological frame give visitors the opportunity to get information on the cultural-historical development of the region and to get deep back into the centuries - from 7th – 6th BC till 14th century. In the “Prehistory” section among the neolithic labour tools, pottery, objects for religious use, etc. there are the earliest pottery known to be found in the territory of Bulgaria, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic works of plastic arts and the unique model of a furnace with a moon calendar thought to be the earliest known in Europe.In the “Antiquity” section the pre-Roman Age is illustrated by funerary objects from a Thracian necropolis, jewelry, pottery, everyday objects, weapons. Roman Pautalia is represented by pottery, applications of chariots, busts and statuettes of gods from the Graeco-Roman pantheon,votive tablets of Zeus and Hera, Asclepius, Hygeia and Telesphorus, Mithra. A floor mosaic from Roman peristyle building is shown  with the image of Hercules on it.Pottery, weapons, jewelry etc. present the Medieval town of Velbuzhd.

Iliya Grigoriev, Efrem Karanov,Styan Zaimov, Zinovi Ppoletrov, Georgi Angelov Drumuharski, Petar Lyubenov, Georgi Kolushki, Mihail Georgiev Mekedonski, Yordan Ivanov

At first it was opened as a school museum-the first one in Southewestern Bulgaria and the third within the country.  In 1908 second museum opened its gate as a part of the local cultural club "Bratstvo". Since 1944 it became a town museum with a gallery and since 1960 it is Country Historic Museum. On July 28, 2000 it is transformed in Regional Historic Museum with a site in Kyustendil and carries out the culture-educational activities within Kyustendil, Blagoevgrad and Pernik  districts. Since 1992 it is called "Academician Jordan Ivanov", after the name of the great Bulgarian scholar. Among the first researchers on the town are the Czech scholar Constantine Irechek-"Travellings along Bulgaria",Jordan Ivanov, Efrem Karanov and others. Great archeological excavations on the region started in 1906. Scientific examinations on the district are published in "Proceedings of the Regional Historic Museum in Kyustendil". The first volume was issued in 1989, in 2006 - the 11th one. Since 1999 the museum has printed annual newspaper and it also organizes archeological and international conferences.