Salt Museum

Located in Pomorie, Bulgaria, the Salt Museum showcases the ancient Anchialos method of salt production through solar evaporation of seawater. Visitors can explore both the museum building and the adjacent 20 decares of active salt pans, where salt is still produced using traditional techniques. The museum also features a rich collection of historical photographs and authentic salt-working tools.

Planning your visit

Pomorie has produced salt by solar evaporation since antiquity, when the town was the Greek colony of Anchialos, and the method has barely changed: seawater is admitted to shallow clay-bottomed pans, moved progressively through a sequence as it concentrates, and the salt raked out by hand in late summer.

The museum covers that process, with historical photographs, tools and documentation, and the twenty decares of working pans alongside it are the actual exhibit — production continues, and in season the harvesting can be watched.

The lagoon around the salt pans is a significant bird site on the Via Pontica migration route, with flamingos, pelicans, avocets and waders using the shallow hypersaline water, so the museum doubles as an access point for birdwatching.

Pomorie also produces wine and lutamine mud used therapeutically. Bookable options combine the museum with coastal lagoon visits and wine tasting. Allow an hour. Current availability is listed below.