National Museum of Natural History
Royal-founded natural history collection of mounted animals, fossils and minerals in a purpose-built hall.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia begins with a royal pastime: the August of eighteen eighty-nine, when Prince Ferdinand set out his own birds, butterflies and mammals in the halls of his palace. It follows the collection to a small building on this site, a court doctor with a passion for birds, and a later tsar who raised a home built just for it. Best heard on Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard, facing the facade.
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