The National Museum of Military History opens doors with a new look and a special exhibit display for Unification Day
From 4 September (Wednesday), after a short pause, the National Museum of Military History (NMMH) will once again be open for visitors. With a new look, changed graphic materials, realised with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, new interactive applications with complementary content, prepared with own budget resources provided by the Ministry of Defence, fuller and more engaging information, the Museum will await its visitors from Wednesday to Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (the ticket office closes at 5 p.m.).
On Unification Day – 6 September (Friday), when the National Museum of Military History will be working with its usual opening hours and entrance fees, as a special treat for its visitors, the Museum will exhibit the flag under whose colours, on 6 September 1885, Major Danail Nikolaev led the troops under his command towards the centre of Plovdiv. It is a tricolour with a lion, prepared for the Eastern Rumelia Militia, but not used due to the status of the province. It was precisely this flag that Major Nikolaev’s troops kissed before they set off, and the words embroidered on it, “Unification or Death”, take us back to those heroic days when public and human life were perceived within the terms of national ideals.
Along with this relic, visitors will have the opportunity to see uniforms and equipment of soldiers of the Bulgarian Army and the Eastern Rumelia Militia, as well as personal effects of participants in the Unification. Among them are uniforms, weapons, decorations and belongings of Prince Alexander I, officer’s shashka of Major Danail Nikolaev, decorations, kalpak cap and certificate of Major Raycho Nikolov, decorations of Captain Kosta Panitsa, weapons of participants in the Chirpan, Golyamo Konare and Stanimaka Detachments and a number of other valuables which tell stories through different perspectives on the events of 139 years ago.
