Baevtsi Ethnographic Museum

The museum exhibition and the structural restoration of the house were completed over three years (2020–2023) by the engineers Lalka and Yordan Mihovi, in memory of their ancestors. Yordan is a sixth-generation descendant of Simeon Boev Simeonov. Work on the interior arrangement continued from 2023 until the summer of 2025.

The museum was created in memory of, and in tribute to, our ancestors, thanks to whom we are here on this land today. Here you can see how our grandparents and great-grandparents lived and worked more than 150 years ago.

I would like to point out that you will encounter the life of a family stretching back seven generations.

As you enter the courtyard, the stable and barn stand in the foreground. Behind them rises the two-storey house, with traces of the Bulgarian National Revival period deliberately preserved. Its architecture and everyday surroundings bear witness to that distant time, almost 160 years ago.

One of the main aims of the Ethnographic Museum is to recall and preserve Bulgarian folk traditions. To remember our roots and never forget them. To preserve the part of those roots that has sustained us for millennia as a people and a nation.

It is no coincidence that a family’s lineage is compared to an ancient tree: it gives us strength, faith, warmth and confidence. Looking back through the years, we seek the significant events and facts from which we draw wisdom for the future. Knowledge of our roots is above all for the generations to come, so that they may know and honour their origins.