Malko Tarnovo History museum, Historical museum in Malko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

The Malko Tarnovo History Museum occupies four historic houses from the late 19th century and displays regional artifacts from around Strandzha Mountain. The collection spans six distinct exhibition areas, including an archaeological section and a working carpet-weaving workshop.

Local teachers first gathered archaeological finds into a school collection, and an Ilinden-Preobrazhensko Uprising display was set up in the community centre. Objects from Prof. Alexander Fol's Strandzha expedition supplied the core of the museum, created on 23 August 1983 as the Strandzha Museum Complex. In 2002 it became a municipal history museum, and on 23 September 2013 it took Fol's name.

The museum displays traditional clothing of the East Ruptsi people and religious icons created by local craftsmen. These objects show the special crafts and beliefs that shaped life in this mountain region.

The museum is split between four Revival-era houses of the Dyakovi and Ilievi merchant families, plus a lapidarium in the courtyard where Greek-inscribed gravestones, altars and a Roman statue of a girl are kept. The ethnographic display occupies the house of Captain Stamat Ikonomov, one of the uprising's ideologues. Expect to move between buildings and an outdoor yard.

The natural-history room uses a telephone handset to play recorded Strandzha bird calls, and a dark room reproduces forest night sounds: nocturnal animals, wind and a river. Two wooden puzzles let visitors assemble a map of Strandzha or build a food chain, and tree species can be identified by their bark.