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Nowadays the Rose Museum stores more
than 15 000 exponents. Inside the museum Address
visitors can see instruments used for
processing rose gardens, utensils for storage
Rosarium park, 6100 Kazanlak
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Entrance
and export of rose oil and rose water. There is Students - 2 lv. / Adults - 6 lv.
also a reproduction of a rose-oil depot and of Opening hours
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the first rose-oil examination laboratory
established in 1907. Inside the museum there
is also a tourist shop where one can buy
every day from 9:00 to 17:30
Phone
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information materials, souvenirs, cosmetics,
+359 (0) 431 6 40 57
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rose jams, rose liqueurs, fragrant oils, etc. Ya
The Rose Museum is the only museum in
the world, dedicated to the oil-yielding
Personal experience
plant rose, and it is housed in the old My first visit was during the Rose Celebration in the
building of the Rose Institute in Kazanlak. first weekend of June, which is an event that attracts
There is a new building in Rosarium park, thousands of guests because it includes rose-
which is part of the Iskra historical picking, rose-boiling demonstrations, international
folklore festival, festal procession and crowning of a
museum. In 1967 a small exposition was
Rose Queen.
created, which was dedicated to rose- Furthermore, I found it interesting that according to
picking in Kazanlak and the region but in written evidence, industrial quantities of oil-
1969 the exposition grew into an yielding rose have been produced in Bulgaria
independent museum. since1650.
Additionally, one of the biggest
attractions in the museum for me
was a rose oil vessel which had
been used for the last time in 1947
and to this day a strong rose
scent can still be smelled around
it.