The exhibition can be visited until the end of July 2021 The National Ethnographic Museum presents its new exhibition "From the edges of embroidery", located in three halls on the first floor of the Prince's Palace. The exhibition tells the story of embroidery as a function, motifs and messages, as well as the changes that took place in the first years after the Liberation, when the embroidered parts began to be seen as Bulgarian heritage and were made into tablecloths and cushions. The main highlight of the exhibition is a map of Bulgaria in embroidery donated by Prof. Ivan Gavrilov, Head of the Breast Surgery Clinic - Oncology Hospital. Designed by his mother Velichka Kamenova and measuring 195/165 cm from a total of 144 embroideries, [...]

International online scientific conference “X Drinov Readings” on “The Balkans in International Relations: From Late Antiquity to the Age of Globalization” will be held on 30 and 31 March 2021. The organizer of this forum is the “Marin Drinov” Center for Bulgarian and Balkan Studies at the faculty of history of Kharkiv National University “V. N. Karazin” while the Institute of Balkan Studies with Center of Thracology and the Institute for Historical Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences are co-organizers. […]

21 March marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Dr. Petar Beron Three of the Revival editions of the "Fish Primer" by Dr. Petar Beron are stored in the Central Library of BAS (CL-BAS). The valuable books can be viewed online in the electronic catalogue and the digital library CL-BAS. March 21st marks the 150th anniversary of the death of the Bulgarian Revival teacher, doctor, scientist and benefactor. He wrote his famous "Fish Primer" when he was only 24 years old, introducing a new and revolutionary for the time being method of teaching. A copy of the first "Primer with various instructions" published in 1824 and known as the "Fish Primer" because of the drawing of a whale in it can be viewed here: [...]

A hundred and twenty-five years since the birth of Acad. Petko Staynov will be celebrated in 2021. An initiative committee chaired by Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of BAS, has adopted a programme to celebrate the anniversary of the great Bulgarian composer. The blind master of tonal art is recognized as one of the most prominent classics of Bulgarian musical culture. His exceptional role in its development is determined primarily by his original work. The celebration of the 125th anniversary of the birth of Acad. Staynov is a joint initiative of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the “Petko Gruev Staynov” Foundation. Among the members of the initiative committee are the chairman of the Union of Bulgarian Composers, the chairman of the Union of the [...]