Salt Museum

The Salt Museum in Pomorie

Pomorie carries the history of salt in its very name: the ancient Greek town of Anchialos lived for centuries off its salt lagoons. The Salt Museum — the only one in Eastern Europe dedicated to sea-salt production by the ancient method — tells this story right beside the working salt pans. It is a living, open-air museum where a technique more than two thousand years old can still be seen in action.

What you will see

The museum recreates the Thracian and ancient method of extracting salt: clay-lined evaporation basins through which seawater is moved and concentrated by sun and wind until it crystallizes. In the warm season you can follow the whole process and, at times, watch salt being harvested by hand with traditional wooden tools. The indoor exhibition presents implements, photographs and explanations of salt's economic role throughout the town's history, the salt trade and the therapeutic lagoon mud valued in spa treatments.

Practical

The museum sits on the northern edge of Pomorie, beside the lagoon lake, easily reached by car or on foot from the center. The best time to visit is summer, when the pans are active and production is in full swing. The visit is short, ideal for an hour's stop, and pairs naturally with a walk along the shore of Pomorie Lake — an important migratory-bird site — and the old peninsula town with its churches and traditional houses.