National Museum of Military History, Military museum in Sofia, Bulgaria
The National Museum of Military History is a military museum in Sofia with large indoor and outdoor spaces for exhibitions. The grounds include several thousand square meters for detailed collections and extensive outdoor displays.
The institution was founded in 1916 as one of only three museums in Bulgaria at that time. It received its current structure and official name in 1968.
The museum displays uniforms, weapons, and vehicles spanning different phases of Bulgarian military history through rotating exhibitions. Visitors can observe how equipment and military style changed across the decades.
The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday and provides wheelchair accessibility throughout the grounds. Visitors should wear comfortable shoes as the extensive grounds include many outdoor sections to explore.
The outdoor section includes aircraft from the MiG series and T-34-76 tanks alongside numerous artillery pieces on display. These vehicles come from different periods of Soviet and Bulgarian military equipment history.
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