Exhibition “Fake (f)or Real? A History of Forgeries and Falsifications” at IEFSEM-BAS
The exhibition “Fake (f)or Real? A History of Forgeries and Falsifications", a project of the European Parliament implemented by the House of European History in Brussels, is visiting the National Ethnographic Museum of BAS until 20 October 2024. Vice President Iliana Iotova opened the exhibition which presented examples of forgeries from the European Middle Ages to the present day. "This exhibition is not addressed to the past, it is extremely topical nowadays because we have not yet found the ways to fight fake news, disinformation, lies, how to distinguish the truth from half-truths," the Vice President said in her address and thanked the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with the Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and its director, Prof. Vladimir Penchev, [...]