{"id":182,"date":"2019-08-22T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site21.blogs.americavip.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2021-01-26T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T11:21:53","slug":"national-museum-of-natural-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/2019\/08\/22\/national-museum-of-natural-history\/","title":{"rendered":"National Museum of Natural History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/site21.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/22\/files\/sites\/22\/2019\/08\/Bulgaria-VIP-NMNHS-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-185\" src=\"http:\/\/site21.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/22\/files\/sites\/22\/2019\/08\/Bulgaria-VIP-NMNHS-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"896\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/22\/files\/sites\/22\/2019\/08\/Bulgaria-VIP-NMNHS-02.jpg 896w, https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/22\/files\/sites\/22\/2019\/08\/Bulgaria-VIP-NMNHS-02-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/22\/files\/sites\/22\/2019\/08\/Bulgaria-VIP-NMNHS-02-768x409.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>National<\/strong><strong> Museum<\/strong><strong> of Natural History (1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd, Sofia)<\/strong> &#8212; The National Museum of Natural History (NMNHS) has a history of more than one hundred and twenty years. It is the oldest museum in Bulgaria and the oldest and richest among the natural history museums on the Balkan Peninsula.\u00a0 s the only national institution directly engaged with the preservation of scientific collections of live and non-live nature from Bulgaria and the world. The study of biodiversity, environmental protection and the evolution of organisms are the museum\u2019s major priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the main task of NMNHS is the all-around study of the fauna, flora, fossils, minerals and rocks of Bulgaria and other countries. It develops the following scientific areas: taxonomy, faunistics, zoogeography and ecology of arachnids, myriapods, insects and all classes of vertebrates; taxonomy of fossil mammals, birds and brachiopods; floristics; mineralogy. Some of the areas have priority as a result of which NMNHS has become the national centre of biospeleology, archaeozoology and paleontology of vertebrates and of bat studies. Insect studies are also highly developed.\u00a0 Admission:\u00a0 4 BGN (adult), 2 BGN (students &amp; seniors), 1 BGN (children under 6 and the disabled).\u00a0 Hours:\u00a0 10:00 am \u2013 6:00 pm (daily).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Museum of Natural History (1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd, Sofia) &#8212; The National Museum of Natural History (NMNHS) has a history of more than one hundred and twenty years. It is the oldest museum in Bulgaria and the oldest and richest among the natural history museums on the Balkan Peninsula.\u00a0 s the only national institution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}