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Museum of the Urban Lifestyle in Ruse

Ruse


Built in 1866 this elegant townhouse features some re-created period rooms, with 19th-century furniture, paintings and chandeliers upstairs. Downstairs there are changing exhibitions on social themes such as education, childhood and domestic life. During the mid-1800s the house served as the consulate of Prussia.


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