 The museum was inaugurated on 19 September 2013 by Rosen Plevneliev, President of Bulgaria.It is located from Sofia in the Rhodopi (village) of Dorkovo between Velingrad and the Batak Reservoir, in the Pazardzhik region.The museum, set amidst the forest, showcases of some of the fossil findings of the excavations, which revealed mostly gomphotheres (extinct elephant relatives).