Museum
Today Shipka is in quiet. The once battlefield has been turned into an open-air museum – the National Park-Museum “Shipka”. It was created in 1956 and encompasses the area of the historic places related to the defence of the Shipka Pass during the Russian-Turkish War of 1877/78. It is a complex of monuments, reconstructions of positions, batteries and dug-outs. The first monuments were Russian and were built in 1878-1881. The Bulgarian monuments on the Shipka battlefield are of the 3rd and the 5th bodies of volunteers (1910) and the Monument of Freedom on Sveti Nikola peak (nowadays Shipka peak), unveiled in 1934.
In 1968 after a decision of the CM NPM “Shipka” becomes a part of National park-museum “Shipka-Buzludja” inculding territory, that covers part of the Shipka pass, monuments, situated in the area of Shipka town and Sheinovo village, and the historical monumets at the Buzludja peak.
Ten thousands of visitors from all over the country and world visit the Monument of Freedom at the Shipka peak each year. The history of the Russian-Turkish war and the monuments are introduced by teams of specialists in Bulgarian, Russian, English, French and German languages.
The museum specialists are performing a slide-rule collecting and researching activity about the Russian-Turkish war and the participation of the Bulgarian volunteers in it. During more than thirty years an extensive research was made on the territory of the whole country. Original documents, pictures and objects of the participants in the war were found. The results of these researches are given to the medias to inform the Bulgarian community.