Friday, June 26, 2009

Varna Archeological Museum


The Varna Archaeological Museum is the largest museum in Bulgaria and was designed by Petko Momchilov. It consists of 2,150 square meters exhibition area featuring the pre-historic items which are valuable to the people of Bulgaria. The great museum, founded on June 3, 1888, was then built as a school for the Varna Girls between 1892 up to 1898.


Circa 1906 was a great year for them because it was the inauguration of the museum where first memorabilia were displayed and formed part of the highlights.


There are two other museums, the Roman Bath which is the biggest bathing area in Europe with halls for bathing with cold or hot water, toilet rooms and many more. Visitors used this during the first century until the third century A.D. The other, an open air site museum, is the Aladja monastery and was declared as a national heritage site.


In 1945, it became the state property and have been popular and well-known worldwide.
The oldest gold treasure in the world is known as the Gold of Varna. It occupies three separate exhibition halls in the museum. The different valuables were dug in 1972. They begun to exhibit this in 1973 in some countries like Japan, Canada, Germany, France, Italy and Israel.

In 1983, these have been accommodated in one building that holds 100,000 treasures of pre-historic people including their natural wealth, e.g. gold, silver and other metals that found out to be of great values.

The Varna Museum, a proud of the Bulgarians, has been a recommended place to visit.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Vladislav Varnenchik Park Museum in Varna


Vladislav Varnenchick Park Museum is located in Varna, Bulgaria. The name came from the late king during the XV Century.

Artifacts of the museum include armors, shields and tools used during the war. You can also find hand made Christian armies comprise of Hungarians, Polish, Czechs, Papal knights, Bosnians, Croatians, Bulgarians, Romanians and Routeni (Old Russians) who fought a heavy battle near Varna against the Turks. After the war, many lives were lost including the king.

The museum was built in memory of the people who risked their lives during the war in 1944.

The exhibits at the museum halls consist of armors, chain armors, helmets, swords, spears, halberds, arbalests, maces, shields, etc.

At the park of the museum, you can find original Thracian Tomb dated back on IV century A.D. and a mausoleum of King Vladislav Varnenchik.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

What Is A Museum?

A museum is an institution where valuable things are displayed for the purpose of exhibits, study and enjoyment. You can find thousands of museums all over the world. They collect scientific, historical or artistic artifacts for public viewing. Sometimes, they restore the items and refurbish everything to make them more presentable.

There are Different Types of Museums. These are the Art, Maritime, Military and War, Mobile Museum, Natural History, Open Air, Science, Specialized, Virtual and Zoos/Zoological Garden.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Dolphinarium In Varna

The Dolphinarium is the favorite spot of the tourist and local people in Varna which is located at the Seaside Park.

The place was open for visitors in 1984 and was constructed for 7 months by Simeon Saraliev who is an architect. It measures 30x30 meters with the height of 14
Meters in the form of glass tube. Because of its unique design, people from different parts of the world visit the place.

Watch them perform on the main pool. There are 1200 seats available for guests.

Their first Dolphins are namely Pipi, Popi, Reina and Split. They are Tursiops truncatus and were caught in Guatemalan waters. They became popular because of their fascinating moves and of course with the help of their coach, German Peter Bozeneker.

Like working people, dolphins are also busy for 6 days of work with one day rest. Monday is their rest day.

Experience the fun and excitement while watching the dolphins’ amazing moves.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

National Museum Of Brazil

The National Museum of Brazil is a centenarian museum and research institution located in Quinta Da Boa Vista Park in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The museum consists one of the largest exhibits of Americas which comprise of animals, insects, minerals, aboriginal collections of utensils, Egyptian mummies, South American Archeological artifacts, meteorites, fossils and some other findings.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

National Museum in the Philippines

The National Museum is the official respository of the Philippines. It was established in 1901 as a National history and ethnography museum located in Rizal Park. The main building was designed by Daniel Burnham who is an American Architect. The building is consists of arts, natural sciences and other support divisions.

Complete Address is below
P. Burgos St., Manila, Philippines
Tel. No. 527 12 15
Fax No. 527 03 06


Wednesday, September 3, 2008

University of Santo Tomas

University of Santo Tomas is the Asia's first University and the Catholic University of the Philippines. It was founded in April 28, 1611 by Reverend Miguel de Benavides and located inside the Intramuros Church, but due to the increased number of students to accomodate and need a large campuses, they moved to the present location which is in the district of Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines.

It is also the oldest and the largest University in Manila where it is presently located and meaasures 215,000 square meters.

The University is also active in sports. They have an athletic teams that gave them awards on different championship games.

Many would like to study and attain their degree in the University because it is one of the prestigious schools in the country and more professionals and well known people finished their education in the said school.