THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE PUBLISHES THE NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR THE EUROPEAN NIGHT OF MUSEUMS ON MAY 18, 2024. This year, the European Night of Museums coincides with the International Museum Day, celebrated for the first time in 1978. The purpose of the holiday is to raise awareness of the role of museums in society. The European Night of Museums was organized for the first time…
ELECTIONS Representative exposure of Art Gallery – Kazanlak Official opening: May 17. (Friday), 6 p.m. The new representative exhibition “Choices”, presenting more than 120 authors with almost 250 works from the rich collection of the Art Gallery – Kazanlak, is a kind of journey, the prelude of which goes through the classic narrative of the history of the development of art, developed in parallel with…
Dear colleagues, members and friends of the museum community, Ever since 1977, ICOM has organised The International Museum Day on May 18. This day is a wonderful opportunity to harmonise all members in a global symphony played in very diverse ways. The theme that was chosen at the ICOM General Assembly for IMD 2024 is Museums for Education and Research! For me, education has been the core…
Slavery, colonization and their legacies at the museum What are the issues? How to talk about it? Thursday May 30, 2024 // 12:30 p.m. on Zoom Dominique Taffin, general curator of heritage, project manager at the Ministry of Culture and former director of the Foundation for the Memory of Slavery, is our next guest on Thursday May 30 in our cycle The 52 minutes of…
THE NATIONAL GALLERY presents KETTE KOLVITZ: FATE, CONTEXT, POSITION „18 May – 16 June 2024 Opening on May 18, Saturday, 7:00 p.m Palace, “Knyaz Alexander I” square N1 Hits: 126
Click HERE to see ICOM’s May 2024 Newsletter. Hits: 107
A meeting of museum specialists from all over the country was held at the National Polytechnic Museum (NPTM). The topic of the forum was: “Popularization of museums today. Engaging Museum Audiences in the Digital Age – Effective Classic and Modern Strategies’. The participants aimed to find relevant models for improving the public image of museums and their more successful promotion to the general public. The…
Promotion of educational initiatives in Bulgarian museums – that is the topic that the Bulgarian participants in the ICOM SEE conference presented to their colleagues from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania and Montenegro. Svetlozar Todorov, Head of the Cultural Management Department in the ETAR museum shared the experience of the team. The director of the museum, Prof. Svetla Dimitrova, and Aksinia Buteva, PhD from the Regional…
Christ is risen! Happy holidays! Board of Directors of BNK of ICOM Image source: Internet Hits: 106
On the 25th of April, 2024, in the city of Plovdiv, the “Bulgarian Museums” Association presented the “Heritage” awards for 2023 at a solemn ceremony. “Veliki Preslav” Archaeological Museum received the award in the “Events and work with audiences” category. Regional Ethnographic Museum – Plovdiv received the award in the “Educational Initiative” category. Regional open-air ethnographic museum “Eter” – Gabrovo received the prize in the…