Editing Plovdiv (section)

===Museums and protected sites===
The Archaeological Museum was established in 1882 as the People's Museum of [[Eastern Rumelia]].<ref>[http://www.archaeologicalmuseumplovdiv.org/_bg/?id=main&prm=welcome Archaeological Museum Plovdiv] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018015407/http://www.archaeologicalmuseumplovdiv.org/_bg/?id=main&prm=welcome |date=18 October 2006 }}</ref> In 1928 the museum was moved to a 19th-century edifice on Saedinenie Square built by Plovdiv architect [[Josef Schnitter]]. The museum contains a rich collection of Thracian art. The three sections "Prehistory",<ref>[http://www.archaeologicalmuseumplovdiv.org/_bg/?id=collection&prm=prehist Archaeological Museum Plovdiv – Prehistoric art]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080418041917/http://www.archaeologicalmuseumplovdiv.org/_bg/?id=collection&prm=prehist |date=18 April 2008 }}</ref> "Antiquity",<ref>[http://www.archaeologicalmuseumplovdiv.org/_bg/?id=collection&prm=roman Archaeological Museum Plovdiv – Roman art]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004220700/http://www.archaeologicalmuseumplovdiv.org/_bg/?id=collection&prm=roman |date=4 October 2008 }}</ref> and "Middle Ages"<ref>[http://www.archaeologicalmuseumplovdiv.org/_bg/?id=collection&prm=medieval Archaeological Museum Plovdiv – Middle Ages art]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004220639/http://www.archaeologicalmuseumplovdiv.org/_bg/?id=collection&prm=medieval |date=4 October 2008 }}</ref> contain precious artifacts from the [[Paleolithic]] to the early Ottoman period (15th–16th centuries).<ref name="mus">[http://www.plovdivsite.hit.bg/index_files/Page1719.htm Museums of Plovdiv] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026003333/http://www.plovdivsite.hit.bg/index_files/Page1719.htm |date=26 October 2014 }}.</ref> The famous [[Panagyurishte treasure]] is part of the museum's collection.<ref>[http://www.archaeologicalmuseumplovdiv.org/_bg/?id=collection&prm=thracian Archaeological Museum Plovdiv – Panagyurishte treasure]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006141314/http://www.archaeologicalmuseumplovdiv.org/_bg/?id=collection&prm=thracian |date=6 October 2008 }}</ref>

The [[Plovdiv Regional Historical Museum]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://historymuseumplovdiv.com/?lang_id=2 |title=Plovdiv Regional Historical Museum |publisher=Historymuseumplovdiv.com |access-date=7 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317200133/http://historymuseumplovdiv.com/?lang_id=2 |archive-date=17 March 2011  }}</ref> was founded in 1951 as a scientific and cultural institute for collecting, saving, and researching historical evidence about Plovdiv and the surrounding region from 16th to 20th centuries. The exhibition is situated in three buildings.<ref name="mus"/>

The [[Plovdiv Regional Ethnographic Museum]] was inaugurated in 1917. On 14 October 1943, it was moved to a house in the Old Town. In 1949 the Municipal House-museum was reorganized as a People's Ethnographic Museum and in 1962 it was renovated. There are more than 40,000 objects.<ref name="mus"/>

The Museum of Natural Science was inaugurated in 1955 in the old edifice of the Plovdiv Municipality built in 1880. It is among the most important museums in the country with rich collections in its [[Paleontology]], [[Mineralogy]], and [[Botany|Botanic]] sections. There are several rooms for wildlife and it contains Bulgaria's largest freshwater aquarium with 40 fish species.<ref name="mus"/> It has a collection of minerals from the [[Rhodope mountains]].

The Museum of Aviation was established on 21 September 1991 on the territory of the Krumovo airbase<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.infoplovdiv.com/bg/catalog/profile/23/98/104/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209203451/http://www.infoplovdiv.com/bg/catalog/profile/23/98/104/index.html |archive-date=9 December 2019 |title=Museum of Aviation |publisher=Infoplovdiv |date=16 February 2008 |access-date=7 January 2011 }}</ref> {{convert|12|km|0|abbr=on}} to the southeast of the city. The museum possesses 59 aircraft and indoor and outdoor exhibitions.<ref name="mus"/>

The Old Town of Plovdiv is a historic preservation site known for its Bulgarian Renaissance architectural style. The Old Town covers the area of the three central hills (Трихълмие, ''Trihalmie''). Almost every house in the Old Town has its characteristic exterior and interior decoration.
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File:Old town Plovdiv2.jpg|Balabanov house
File:Old town3.jpg|Lamartine House
File:Old town14.jpg|[[Church of St Constantine and Helena]]
File:Klianti.jpg|Klianti House
File:Old town Plovdiv.jpg|Old town
File:Old town of Plovdiv.jpg|Street of Old town
File:Bulgaria Bulgaria-0743 - Plovdiv Regional Ethnographic Museum (7432394622).jpg|[[Plovdiv Regional Ethnographic Museum]]
File:Old town Plovdiv4.jpg|Old town
File:Old town Plovdiv1.jpg|Old town - Plovdiv
File:Old town georgiadi.jpg|[[Plovdiv Regional Historical Museum]]
File:Casa Hindliyan - 01 (5641181670).jpg|[[Hindliyan House]]
File:Old town hisar kapia.jpg|Hisar gate with the ethnographical museum
</gallery>