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Regional Historical Museum in Pleven is active in searching, prospecting, presenting, preserving and promoting of cultural, natural specimens, flora and fauna on the territory of Pleven region.

The exposition is arranged in 24 halls with more than 5,000 museum values, through which, in five sections - Archeology, Ottoman rule and National Revival, Ethnography, New and Modern History and Nature, is presented the history, culture, flora and fauna of the city of Pleven adjacent area from ancient times to modernity.

Since 1984 the museum is located in the impressive two-storey building - a cultural monument of artistic and architectural and historic national importance, built in 1884-1888. The building was an Italian barracks project. Furthermore, it is worth to explore the exposure of Military Museum in the city.

The modern structure of the Military Museum - Pleven includes: Panorama "Pleven Epopee - 1877" ,house museum "Tsar Liberator Alexander II", the chapel-mausoleum "St. Georgi", Skobelev Park-Museum, exhibition" Pleven Epopee - 1877", house-museum "Prince Nikolai Nikolaevich", House and Museum "Carol I"- in the town of Pordim and the Romanian mausoleum near the village Grivitsa.

Chapel-mausoleum "St. Georgi "was built in the period 1903-1907, in memory of the fallen Russian and Romanian soldiers in the Pleven siege during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877/1878. The Skobelev Park was officially inaugurated with the house-museum "Tsar Liberator Alexander II".

The Romanian mausoleum in the Grivitsa village was built between 1892 and 1897 in memory of the Romanian soldiers who died during the Russo-Turkish War. In 1958 a memorial park was built with area of 360 acres. In 1967 the museum exposition was opened, which reflects the village Grivitsa fightings during the Russo-Turkish war and the path of the Romanian Army. In the mausoleum, which consists of the temple premises and the ossuary, in marble sarcophagi are kept the bones of those killed in the fighting near Grivitsa. The iconostasis has four icons - "Jesus Christ", "St. Nicholas", "Archangel Michael"and "Mary and the Christ". In 1902 there was placed a bronze medallion with text in Romanian with dedication to the Romanian soldiers.

In the region are revealed significant archaeological sites: the Roman town Ulpia Eskus near the village Gigen, Storgozia fortress, the medieval Bulgarian fortress of Nikopol. Ulpia Eskus was one of the major cities in the Roman province of Lower Moesia. It was founded in 106 by Emperor Trajan to celebrate his victory over the Dacians and served as headquarters of the Macedonian Legion V. In 328, at the time of Emperor Constantine the Great, here was built the Konstantinov bridge (Constantine’s bridge) over the Danube.

Storgozia is late antiquity and early Byzantine fortress and settlement, remains of which are in today Kaylaka in Pleven in northern Bulgaria. The ancient settlement of Storgozia dates back to a road station of the Roman Empire, located in the center of modern Pleven, and probably created at the site of an older Thracian settlement. The city has placed a garrison of units of I Italic legion, sitting in Novae (near Svishtov). Better conditions for economic activity attracted settlers from the surrounding small villages to the station. Archaeological finds from the necropolis and Storgozia are ceramics, weapons, coins – they verify that this fortified settlement has existed until the end of VI century. Invasion of the Slavs in the Balkan Peninsula began in the VI century and ended in the middle of VII century, destroying the ancient city.

The remains of the fortress of the Pleven Park "Kaylaka" show that the settlement was an important administrative, military and religious center. In the Middle Ages, at the time of King Michael III Asen (1323-1330), then the town entered the territory of Lovech Despotate in the system of fortresses for defense of the capital Tarnovo. During the Ottoman period in the neighborhood, "Varos" around the “St. Nicholas” church from the XIII century, educational center was formed in the city.