The Fine Art Collection of the Ethnographic Museum consists of more than 100 valuable paintings, icons, statuettes, woodcarvings and metal figures. Authors’ names include painters like Simeon Velkov, Kosta Forev, Georgi Bozhilov – Slona, Dimitar Kirov, Kolyu Vitkovski, etc. With its more than 2000 inventory items, the photo gallery possesses a great information potential of a subject to scientific interpretations and a source of illustration of the life in Plovdiv and Plovdiv region – portraits, clothes, architecture, style of living, festive rites, etc. Most of the photographs are black and white, mounted, and date back to the beginning of 20th century. Their authors were some of the most famous photographers of that time: K. Savov, D. Kotsev, A. Kolarov, A. Tomov, etc. The exhibition includes the unique painting by Ivan Murkvichka “Market in Plovdiv” (1888), which was one of the first to depict everyday life of the Bulgarian town after the Liberation.