Tsarevo Municipal History Museum
The Open-Air Museum of Tsarevo — also known as the Goryanin Ship Museum — is an outdoor museum located in the centre of the town of Tsarevo, Tsarevo Municipality, Burgas Region, on the Southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast, officially opened in 2008. Its purpose is to exhibit and commemorate the main historical livelihood of the town — shipbuilding — and at its heart it preserves the remains of the vessel Goryanin, which was used first for economic and later for educational purposes. The museum represents a rare open-air tribute to the maritime and shipbuilding heritage of the Bulgarian coast, and is closely associated with the Municipal Historical Museum of Tsarevo — the largest historical museum south of Burgas, opened on 6 December 2012 in immediate proximity to the coastal promenade at 12 Peneka Street — which together form the principal cultural and historical destination in the town.The Municipal Historical Museum houses archaeological finds dating back three millennia and is dedicated to preserving and promoting the heritage of Coastal Strandzha. Among its most outstanding holdings are two extraordinary Thracian treasures from the village of Sinemorets: the Silver Coin Hoard — discovered in September 2012, comprising 199 tetradrachms, including extremely rare coins of the Thracian king Mostis (of which only 11 were previously known to exist worldwide, held in numismatic collections in New York, Paris, and the Hermitage; today the Bulgarian museum holds 36 of them) — and a copy of the Golden Treasure, discovered in 2006 in a tumulus near Sinemorets in one of the richest Hellenistic-period graves ever found in Europe, belonging to a woman of noble Thracian origin (the original participated in the international exhibition "The First Kings of Europe" in the United States and Canada). The museum is also planned to open a dedicated Ethnography department focused on the Nestinari fire-walking tradition — inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, practised in the nearby village of Bulgari. The museum is included in Bulgaria's 100 National Tourist Sites under number 8b.
