I think many have heard about the Bulgarian Museum of Humor in the city of Gabrovo (it was popular in the USSR), about the Gabra jokes, which seem uncomfortable to many. It seemed to me too, until I plunged into the etymology of this strange humor. But now I want to show you another museum - it’s not about humor.
Ethnographic open-air museum Etar is located on the edge of Gabrovo. This is the first such museum in Bulgaria. It was opened in 1964, and it consists of absolutely authentic buildings and mechanisms. True, they were brought here from all over the country.
This complex is the only collection of folk water technology in the country. It contains ten working exhibits. These are mills for the spinning workshop, flour mills, pottery, and even a washing "machine" for carpets - peralnia.
That is, not mills, but water wheels that drive the mechanisms, twisting hoops and spindles, for example.
Here it is peralnya - the washing machine for carpets and paths. They were put in this wooden bowl, and the water running from above knocked the dirt out of them.
The most interesting thing is that all this works and can be used for its intended purpose.
And this is an old "black" karajika mill. She made flour in black, that is, along with the husk.
In some houses the master showed how it works. I filmed a video on my phone there, but I don’t know how to place it here, so I’ll show you just a photo. There was a terrible noise from the coils beating against each other, and the woman showed how the wool was spun.
Spinning mill
Also in this museum there are another 16 houses that used to belong to different artisans. These houses were brought to Etyr, they reassembled and restored the life and work of the previous owners, as they say. That is, on the ground floor there is a shop or workshop, and the upper floors are residential.
Real craftsmen sit in the workshops and show how they make skins, cut wood, weave carpets and so on. Moreover, all this can be immediately bought.
There are workshops in Etyra:
- copper
- pottery
- woodcarving
- icon painting
- locksmith
- furrier
- jewelry
- for making musical instruments
- forge
- sad
- weaving
There is also an old coffee shop, where they brew coffee on the sand and bakeries, where you can buy banitsy and kifly.
The organizer of this unusual museum was Lazar Donkov and the first exhibit - the local mill. He restored it. In 1971, this ethnographic park was declared a cultural monument.
There are many people here, especially with children - this is a great place for walking. The park has a restaurant, parking in front of the park. Entrance fee - 5 leva (2.5 euros) per adult. Children and pensioners walk here on preferential terms.
This house is the newest one, or the richest - because it has a bed. Two hundred-three hundred years ago in Bulgarian villages they slept on the floor.
Bedroom - soba
And this is the day room
And this is how the most common bedrooms looked. All slept on carpets and hides. This is the second floor - on the ground either pets or workshop.
And so they ate. That is, they were either sitting on the floor, or on such small chairs, and they were putting food on such a small table.
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