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Bearing southeast from the Ethnographic Museum along Han Omurtag will bring you to ul. 8 Noemvri and the City Historical Museum , at no. 5 (officially Tues-Sat 10am-5pm; US$1.50). A pretty dull collection of black-and-white photos, documents and brochures traces the development of Varna from nineteenth-century Balkan backwater to the comfortable bourgeois European town and seaside resort it had become by the early twentieth century. Among the street scenes and portraits of prominent citizens are pictures of the annual beauty contests - a competition which Varnentsi claim the dubious honour of inventing. Initially contestants were dubbed "Sea Hyenas" (perhaps because of their long, stripy bathing suits), and as costumes got skimpier during the 1920s they were renamed "Sea Nymphs". In the basement there's a reconstructed tailor's workshop of the 1940s, and a few period magazines and more photos. Just outside is the rusted hulk of a nineteenth-century British-made steam engine, and immediately to the south are the overgrown remains of more Roman baths , this time dating from the late fourth century, and far less extensive than the better-preserved thermae on Han Krum.
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