The museum was founded in 1953 and is one of the 100 national tourist attractions of Bulgaria. The exhibitions are presented onto sections in separate rooms, which follow different stages of the region’s development. In the Prehistory hall, ceramic objects, household items, work tools and weapons are exhibited, from the earliest times of antiquity to the Roman era. The Antiquity Hall presents artefacts from the early Roman and Byzantine times (cent. I-VI). In the Middle Ages hall are displayed old Bulgarian jewellery typical for the Bulgarian Middle Ages  (7th-14th centuries), painted icons, amulets, silver tabernacles for holy relics, household items and traditional tools. In the Thracian Treasures hall, you can admire the gold and silver jewellery, objects of value found in the Vratsa region, such as the Rogozen treasure, the mosaic in the village of Galatin, etc. Valuable copies of the School of Literature, Iconography and the School of Goldsmiths are presented in the Bulgarian History room from the cent. XV-XIX. The exhibition dedicated to the legendary military troops of the revolutionary poet Hristo Botev (1848-1876) is organized in the Botev Hall. The Rainbow stone room contains samples of minerals, precious and semi-precious stones, fossils of flora and fauna. The economic, political and cultural development of the Vratsa region until 1918 is presented in the New History Hall.