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National Ohrid Museum


„National Ohrid Museum is located in the old part of the city, very close to the shores of Ohrid Lake. ”

 

More than two centuries earlier the Louvre in Paris and the British Museum in London, in the church of the Mother of God Peribleptos, in the old part of Ohrid, there was in archbishopric museum, which was one of the oldest in Europe that existed about 400 years, from 1516 to 1916 when the museum was disbanded. It revived 35 years later, in May 1951. Today, the exhibits are presented in the historical house of the richest family in Ohrid, Robev family, built in 1863-1864. The biggest part of the museum consists of an archaeological collection that presents the archaeological treasure from the region of the city. It includes precious antiques, above all the Golden Mask from the 5th century BC, as well as much other gold, silver, and glided items found during excavations in Ohrid and the archaeological sites Trebenishte and Deboj.

 
Despite the memorial story of the family presented through the original material items that belonged to the members of the family and the exceptional woodcarving, in 2014 the famous Golden Room was opened.

It includes precious antiques, above all the Golden Mask from the 5th century BC, as well as much other gold, silver, and glided items found during excavations in Ohrid and the archaeological sites Trebenishte and Deboj.