The Ethnographic museum Etar was established on September 7th, 1964. The museum is situated 8 km South of the town of Gabrovo. The idea for creating EM Etar belongs to Lazar Donkov. The main point of the museum is to reveal the architecture, customs and agriculture and livestock breeding of Gabrovo city and the Gabrovo's outskirts during the Bulgarian National Revival - the second half of XVIII century and XIX century.