2024

TOBACCO MUSEUM

Specialized museum

This museum (Музеј за Тутун/Muzej za Tutun) is located within the Prilep Tobacco Factory (Тутунски Комбинат ад Прилеп) and is part of the Prilep National Museum. It was founded in 1973 to mark the factory's centenary and the four centuries of tobacco cultivation in Pelagonia. The exhibition features over 2,500 objects: snuffboxes, pipes, water pipes, opium pipes, hookahs, lighters, narcotics, as well as tobacco production and handling objects, advertising objects, tobacco products, paintings, photo collections and sculptures.

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2024

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PRILEP

General museum

Founded in 1952, this museum and national institute (НУ Музеј Прилеп/NU Muzej Prilep) is housed in a former World War II Bulgarian police station. It houses collections of history, ethnology and archaeology. The latter is rather rich, with objects and weapons from Neolithic sites in the region, as well as Greek tombs, Serbian and Roman coins and jewelry found in the Varoš district. The history section features some 200 Byzantine and post-Byzantine icons.

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