Ethnographic Museum

Museum was opened in 1958 with the presentation of the museum collection of ethnographic character. In 1966 was established as an ethnographic museum. Its location is in two storey buildings in the center of Elhovo, built in 1933 and merged into one in the sixties. The building has undergone reconstruction and architectural design consistent with the required criteria for creation of a museum. It held about 22 000 exhibits and 13,800 of them constitute the main part of the collections at the museum to visitors.

The exhibits are divided into different departments: - "Agriculture and Livestock", "Housing and living arrangements," "Transportation, hunting, fishing," "Clothing and jewelry," "fabrics and embroideries," "Traditional Crafts", "Art Folk Art ". Museum has collected documentary photo archive over 8000 photos and documents related to the history of this region from the liberation until today. It can be seen and exhibits impressive for its fine craftsmanship, artistry and original form, particularly artistic and scientific value are the collections in "clothing and jewelry" and "fabrics and embroideries." Besides objects made by indigenous peoples of Strandja-Sakar region are exposed and collections of Bulgarian immigrants from Adrianople and Aegean Thrace.

The museum exposition is situated on 250 square meters and is divided into four rooms, which are functionally and architecturally designed in two floors. The first room presents the main livelihood of the local population in the late XIX and early XX century – agriculture, wine, tobacco, livestock, traditional crafts such as copper and tailoring, as well as the development of transport. The second hall introduces houses and house arrangements of the same period. In the next room is the traditional clothing of the people in the southeastern part of the Bulgarian lands – children, male and female, casual and festive. Especially impressive is the female clothing and the traditional costumes used by women in these lands to the 60s of XX century. Fourth Hall presents some traditional festivals and customs, such as wedding, mummers games, Christmas and Lazaruvane presented by their specific ritual props and clothing, as well as many pictures.