The idea to establish an archeological museum in Preslav came into being soon after Bulgaria's Liberation from Turkish Yoke. The idea was of a musem holding for exhibition all the monuments found in the ancient capital. This, however, became possible no sooner than October,1906. This was when the initiative Preslavian teacher and socially active figure of Jordan Gospodinov, through the help of K.Shkorpil - the researcher of Bulgarian ruins, found the Preslavian Archeological Association - "TICHA".

 Some of the most important tasks of the association were to arrange a museum collection of exhibits and to act actively in researching and preserving the remains of the great capital of Simeon. Since there was no bilding to serve as a museum, all the exhibits, collected in the following years from different private individuals and archeological excavations, were exposed in three separate exhibitions in the city-hall, in Patleina and in the newly built cottage near The Round Church. 

In 1949, a building that was meant to be a monastery was readjusted and converted into a museum. This building was near "St.Cyril and St.Methodius" cathedral in immediate proximity to the ruins. All discovered items by then were taken stock of in the new museum. That was the first time a comprehensive exposition of Preslavian past had been made. The special need to expose a great number of already known and newly discovered monuments from the capital-city period of Preslav led to opening a new  exposition in 1958. However, some prehistoric exhibits were taken out of the exposition as not typical for the Capital-city period of Preslav. Over half a million visited the Archeological Museum - "Veliki Preslav" in the following twenty years.

In connection to the celebration of 1300 years since the foundation of Bulgaria on the Danube River, the museum was removed in a new building was constructed meating the contemporary demands of the time. New was the arrange of the exposition too. The administrative office was transfered from BSA / Bulgarian Science Academy / to Cultural and Historic Heritage Administration Office in Shumen. In the very first years of restored democracy, the Archeological Museum - "Veliki Preslav" was separated  from that large and lumbering structure, so that the museum could develop independently. The exposition was entirely renovated and the security system, as well as the preservation conditions were particularly taken care of. A strong-room  for the most precious and susceptible to atmospheric conditions was specially equipped. Those innovations were the required precondition for making it possible to return to the museum, after more than twenty years, the most precious Preslavian collections: the Preslavian Golden  Treasure, a five-hundred lead seals sfragistic collection and many other significant monuments. After obtaining its juridical independence /1996/, the museum gained the right to condition directly participations in international exhibitions, co-issues and conducting archeological research.

  No doubt that 95 years after the first exhibition of the museum in Preslav, Jordan Gospodinov felt his dream was finely accomplished. Nowadays, the town Veliki Preslav has an archeological museum of its own with a magnificent exposition. It is visited by tens of thousand Bulgarian and foreign tourists every year. The rich and various exhibits repesent comprehensively the so-called "Golden Age"/or Preslavian Civilization/ and illustrate the place of the capital of Simeon as the heart of Slavonic literature, arts and crafts in European Southeast during 9th and 10th centuries.