The exhibition “MAN-NATURE-CULTURE: ANCIENT THRACIA AND MEDIEVAL BULGARIA” 
was opened on 10 June 2020 in the Ancient Cultural-Communication Complex “Serdika”, “Largo” area, located under the “Independence” square. It is carried out by the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences together with the Regional History Museum – Sofia. Its authors are Prof. Valeria Fol and Chief Assistant Professor Ruja Popova, PhD from IBCT-BAS, and Chief Assistant Professor Oleg Konstantinov, PhD from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.
The exhibition is presented in implementation of the distributed research infrastructure INFRAMAT (part of the National Roadmap for Research Infrastructure), supported by contract D01-155 / 28.08.2018 of the Ministry of Education and Science.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veneta Handzhiyska, Director of the Regional History Museum – Sofia, and Prof. Dr. Roumiana Preshlenova, Director of the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, welcomed the audience and wished success to the exhibition.
The exhibition can be viewed until 30 June 2020.
On 12 June 2020, the exhibition “The City of the Balkans: Spaces, Images, Memory in Postcards” was opened in Tsar Simeon’s Garden – Alley of the Fountain “Demeter”. This new edition of the exhibition is carried out by the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences together with the Municipality of Plovdiv and Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski” under the “Cultural Heritage, National Memory and Social Development” National Research Program funded by MES.
The opening of the exhibition by Dr. Krassimir Assenov, Deputy Mayor of the North District, Plovdiv Municipality, Prof. Dr. Roumiana Preshlenova, Director of the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Prof. Dr. Maria Schnitter from Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski” was met with great interest.
The exhibition can be viewed until 26 June 2020.
