Baba Tonka House-Museum
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- Population placeRuse
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The house-museum "Baba Tonka" is located on the street of the same name. "Baba Tonka" 40 in Ruse. It is an impressive building with two above-ground and one ground floor, built in 1908 for the home of Nikola Obretenov - son of Tonka Obretenova. The Obretenovi family is a symbol of the tireless Bulgarian spirit and the pursuit of national liberation and an independent church. The Baba Tonka House Museum has been closed to visitors for many years due to its poor condition following the 1977 Vrancea earthquake and groundwater subsidence. In 2015, it was reopened, fully fortified and restored with an attractive interactive exhibition. The theme of the exhibition is not only the participation of the family in the pre-liberation struggles in Ruse, but also the contribution of Ruse in the Bulgarian Revival and in the struggles for liberation and for an independent church. In one of the rooms there is an exhibition of a town house from the end of the XIX century with authentic furniture belonging to another revolutionary and his family - the voivode Panayot Hitov. The skull of Stefan Karadja occupies a central place in the exposition.