Exhibition: The Bulgarian Museum of Aviation is situated near the small airport south east of Plovdiv. There are presented about 6800 exhibits and 65 aircrafts - airplanes, helicopters, gliders, radio -relay stations and others. They are located in two inside and one outside expositions, two repair-restoration hangars and archives’ storehouse.

     Selected from the collections: The Aviation Museum possesses two rich expositions – an internal and an external one. The internal exposition is spread on a large area and multiple aircrafts are placed on it. Among the most precious exponents of the museum is a green hydroplane called Arado - 196 A-3 "Shark" – the only one preserved exponent in the whole world. It was manufactured in 1938 in Germany and it was delivered in Bulgaria in 1943. In the external part of the museum the visitors can also see transportation planes, military planes, naval fighters of various generations, etc.
     The internal exposition of the museum presents not only the history of the Bulgarian aviation, but also that of the success of Bulgaria in the area of aeronautics. Here one can see the original descendable space craft of the first Bulgarian astronaut Georgi Ivanov (a member of the international team of the space ship called Soyuz 33, sent in orbit on 10 April 1979). In the museum is kept the original costume and space suit of Georgi Ivanov. The descendable space craft is placed together with his original parachute which takes an area of 1000 square meters and weighs 160 kg.
     In the exposition dedicated to Space are presented the Bulgarian developments of space equipment and space foods. The visitors can see how the dishes Monastery Beans, Cucumber Soup and Milk with Granola look in space.

     Services: The museum is attended by curators in Bulgarian and English language.

     Working time: Wednesday - Sunday (summer) - 09:00 am - 05:00 pm

                           Wednesday - Sunday (winter) - 09:00 am - 04:00 pm

     Address: 4112 Plovdiv, village of Krumovo

     Bookings and inquiries:

     Tel: (+359 32) 63 66 77