Museum Collection - Belene

Even before the Balkan War and the First World War, a museum collection existed in Belene, built by Catholic priests led by priest Karl Raev. It contained a part of a pipe from the Roman water pipe that led from the village of Kulina Voda to Belene, Roman coins, old printed books in foreign and Bulgarian languages. During the two wars all this was looted and sold off.

In 1956, on the initiative of Nikolai Patov, Anton Dobranov and Petar Tonev, a museum collection was founded at the community centre "Hristo Botev". In 1964, the collection numbered over 457 exhibits of various stages, which were divided into five sections: numismatic, Roman-Byzantine, clothing characteristic of the Catholics; a section on weapons and socialist construction. In the 1980s, the museum collection was housed in a private house - expropriated from the municipality, and in the early 1990s it was moved and arranged in a specially prepared room in the building of the community center, where it is located to this day.

On 26.01.1993 a museum collection was officially opened in the community centre "Hristo Botev - 1892" and includes two main sections: archaeology and ethnography.