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Two halls with materials from the First and Second Bulgarian state, among which the beautiful vessels and ornaments of the Nikopol treasure (XIV-XV); an original gate from the Nikopol fortress; silver and copper bracelets, ear-rings and rings from a necropolis near Pleven (XII-XIV); arms, ceramics and objects made of bone.

Treasure from the town of Nikopol, XIV-XV c.
Inv. No 1194. Found in 1971.

Earrings-earcaps from Nikopol treasure, gold, diam. 4,1 cm. Inv. No 1194.

Armenian tetraevangelia, papyrus, XII c., 15,2/11 cm., the town of Belene. Inv. No 3741. The Gospel contains 27 miniatures, 4 title pages and 252 pages text in Armenian language. On the last page there is a donation inscription in French, according to which it is bestowed on the Bulgarian king Alexander I Batenberg by the Armenian metropolitan in Bulgaria Ovanes Krikorian in 1883.

Proto-Bulgarian amulets, bronze, X c., the village of Gigen, h. 4,1 cm. Inv. No 2563, 2058.

Maces, iron, XIII-XIV c.: h. 6,5 cm., the village of Dolni Lukovit, inv. No 2922; h. 5,5 cm., inv. No 125; h. 6 cm., inv. No 126; h. 4,2 cm., inv. No 124, the village of Zgalevo.