National Museum Hristo Botev

Kalofer is the birthplace of the great Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev.A museum, dedicated to him, was built in Kalofer, which stores, preserves and displays the personal belongings, documents, publications and works of the Bulgarian artist, along with other materials, associated with the life and work of Hristo Botev, his family and his comrades.

The national museum Hristo Botev was built at the place, where the last house of the Botev family used to be. The museum complex is situated in the center of the town of Kalofer, in Boteva Gradina (Botev Garden) park. It includes several objects - a memorial museum house, an exhibition hall, a monument of Hristo Botev and a monument of Ivanka Boteva - the mother of the poet. The whole ensemble was declared a group cultural monument - a historical place of national importance, in accordance with the Protocol of NSOPK of 14 December 1998.

Botev wasn't born there but called it a native home, because this was the place where he spent his childhood. He returned to this house after his studies in Odessa and his teachings in Zadunaevka. In the same house, he received the issue of Slaveykov's gazette Gayda, where his first poem, called Maytse Si (To my Mother) was published. The house was destroyed, when the Ottoman Turks set the town on fire during the war between Russia and Turkey in 1877. On the initiative of the Kalofer citizens and patriotic Bulgarians all over the country, the building was restored, according to the memories of senior Kalofer citizens and Botev's brother - general Kiril Botev. The house was officially opened as a museum on 2 June 1944.

The house-museum Hristo Botev has several rooms, where was made a reconstruction of the original interior as it was . The rooms are covered with beautiful hand-woven rugs. There are exposed original wooden furniture - a small table and chairs for dining, original cabinets, etc..

Original exhibits are the sewing machine and the spinning wheel of his mother Ivanka.

Here visitors can see the only preserved personal belongings of Botev - his pocket watch and his desktop accessories. His printing press is also shown - it printed some of Botev's issues of name gazette and the first issue of his last gazette called New Bulgaria.

Near the house was created an exhibition hall where are displayed documents, publications and personal belongings of Hristo Botev.