Ethnographic Museum of Burgas

A collection of folk costume and daily life from south-eastern Bulgaria, housed in the Brakalov merchant house of 1873 — one of the few surviving examples of National Revival architecture in Burgas. The core of the display is costume from the different ethnographic groups of the region: local Balkan settlers, refugees from Eastern Thrace and Asia Minor, each with its own cut, embroidery and headdress. A separate room is given over to kuker outfits — the masks and fur costumes worn at winter rites to drive out evil spirits; kuker processions have survived in this part of the country as a living tradition and still take place today. Also shown are craftsmen's tools, copper vessels, looms and the furnishings of a late nineteenth-century town house. The museum is small, a walk through it takes about an hour, and it stands a block away from the main pedestrian street.

Address

Aleko Bogoridi, Burgas

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