The Ethnographic Museum “Danube Fishing and Boat Building” in Tutrakan is part of the city’s Historical Museum.

The museum was opened in 1974 and is the only one in the countries along the Danube River. It was created to preserve the rich material and spiritual culture, social structure and way of life of the Bulgarians from the Danube fishing villages. It is no coincidence that the museum is located in Tutrakan, because fishing has been the main livelihood of the population in this region since ancient times to the present day. At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the city established itself as the center of Danube fishing.

The museum building is located in a courtyard on two terraces. In the lapidarium – an open-air exhibition, ancient models of a fishing boat “chamnitsa” (kaik) and a modern two-masted fishing boat “tutrakanka”, various stone weights for fishing lines (karmaksi), which were used in different eras by Tutrakan fishermen, as well as stone mills for grinding corn flour (malai).