National Art Gallery @ Ethnographic Museum. Sofia, Bulgaria
5 minutes Sofia - National Institute of Archaelogy with Museum
The National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences covers the complete study of the culture of tribes and peoples who have occupied present day Bulgaria from the remote past until the 18th century.
5 minutes Sofia - National History Museum
The National Historical Museum in Sofia is Bulgaria's largest museum. It was founded on 5 May 1973. A new representative exhibition was opened in the building of the Court of Justice on 2 March 1984, to commemorate the 13th centenary of the Bulgarian state.
Festival of folklore in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria
UNESCO: Best Safeguarding Practices - 2016
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Description: The concept for the Festival of Folklore in Koprivshtitsa, where thousands of Bulgarians and the diaspora meet to perform living heritage practices, originated when local musicians saw that traditions were being endangered by factors such as urbanization and commodification. Involving the municipality, Ministry of Culture, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with the Ethnographic Museum, the Institute for Art Studies and Bulgarian television and radio, it promotes the performance, transmission and documentation of community traditions attracting national and international audiences.
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Festival of folklore in Koprivshtitsa
UNESCO: Best Safeguarding Practices - 2016
URL:
Description: The concept for the Festival of Folklore in Koprivshtitsa, where thousands of Bulgarians and the diaspora meet to perform living heritage practices, originated when local musicians saw that traditions were being endangered by factors such as urbanization and commodification. Involving the municipality, Ministry of Culture, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with the Ethnographic Museum, the Institute for Art Studies and Bulgarian television and radio, it promotes the performance, transmission and documentation of community traditions attracting national and international audiences.
Country(ies): Bulgaria
© 2013 by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria
Duration: 00:10:16 - Support: Blu-ray (0097000009)
European Cuteness Art 2016 / Sofia (Bulgaria)
NATIONAL GALLERY SOFIA ARSENAL
MUSEUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
and Cultural Association Studio Soligo
Present the exhibition
EUROPEAN CUTENESS ART
Kindchenschema - Pseudoego - Community Narcissism
15.09. – 30.10.2016
Under the Patronage of the Italian Cultural Institute
Opening: 15 of September, Thursday, 6 pm.
Sofia Arsenal – Museum for Contemporary Art, 2, Cherni Vruh Blvd.
Curator: Giancarlo Carpi
Artists:
Stefano Bolcato, Danilo Bucchi, Maria M. Bordeariu, Adrian Buzduca, Radu Carnariu, Laura Covaci, Darie Dup, Luciano Fabale, Marianna Felicetti, Gerlanda di Francia, Max Ferrigno, Gabriels, Kaloyan Iliev, Loreta Isac, Serena Leardini, Flavia Lupu, Luisa Montalto, Dan Nica, Ileana Oancea, Omino 71, Daria Palotti, Jordan Pancov, Laura Patacchia, Bogdan Pelmus, Magda Pelmus, Elisa Pietrelli, Cristiano Petrucci, Adrian Preda, Natascia Raffio, Adrian Sandu, Silvano Tessarollo, Katja Tukiainen, Elio Varuna, Esteban Villalta Marzi, Deyan Yanev, Valentina Zummo.
For more information:
sofiaarsenal-mca.org
Nadezhda Dzhakova, head of SAMCA +359 879 834 030
SOFIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM 2017
The exhibition Archaeological Heritage of Azerbaijan was held in Sofia (Bulgaria)
AMEA-nın vitse-prezidenti, Nizami Gəncəvi adına Ədəbiyyat İnstitutunun direktoru, akademik İsa Həbibbəylinin rəhbərliyi etdiyi nümayəndə heyəti Bolqarıstanda səfərdə olub.
Səfər çərçivəsində Bolqarıstan Elmlər Akademiyasının (BEA) Eksperimental Morfologiya, Patologiya və Antropologiya, Ədəbiyyat və Milli Arxeologiya institutlarında görüşlər keçirilib, AMEA-nın Ədəbiyyat İnstitutu ilə BEA-nın Ədəbiyyat İnstitutu, AMEA-nın Arxeologiya və Etnoqrafiya İnstitutu ilə BEA-nın Milli Arxeologiya İnstitutu arasında əməkdaşlıq haqqında sazişlər imzalanıb və əməkdaşlığın perspektivləri müzakirə olunub.
Sofia Natural History Museum
8/14 Wednesday
We have an ad for a Free City Tour that meets just a few blocks from our place, so we decide to join in. Our guide is a tiny young woman, Petya, with a booming tour guide voice. She's a native, educated as a linguist, who left her job as a data analyst to work with this fledgling tour company. She gives us an excellent tour, just informative enough, jokey enough, walking us through the main area of the city. We have about 20 people with us, from all over Europe, mostly young people from the hostels. Our tour goes over two hours, and we enjoy the entire time.
She begins with the story of the somewhat racy statue of Saint Sophia that dominates the city center, noting that the city is named for the Greek phrase Hagia Sofia, meaning Holy Wisdom, and really has nothing to do with the saint. She also tells us that the statue is a recent addition, placed on its pedestal to replace a huge statue of Lenin, which was pulled down with all the other statues honoring Communism, and sent off to the Museum of Socialist Art. We'll just have to visit that one.
At one point, Petya tells us briefly of Bulgaria's Tsar, during WWII when Bulgaria was allied with Germany, finding ways to put off and delay the required expulsion of the Bulgarian Jews, ultimately saving the entire population of 50,000 people. It's an obvious point of national pride, and she becomes quite emotional about it. This is also very interesting to us, having learned something of the story of the Jews in Macedonia, who were delivered to Treblinka under the rule of Bulgaria.
We see this as an example of the complicated, intertwined history of the Balkans, not that we would consider ourselves to be educated by the brief introductions we have in tours or museums. We do experience something of the way perceptions change so dramatically from one region to another. The Tsar is a hero to one, a criminal to the other. Bulgaria hopes to regain its homeland, while Macedonia fights for its sovereignty. At one time or another, Bulgaria formed alliances with Montenegro, Serbia and Greece, with Germany, with Russia, and was also at war with these same allies. The story of this region is intense and compelling.
After our tour, we stop at a little café for a snack. Bob has one of his very favorite things: Chicken Soup. This bowl is especially good, the kind of old world soup your gramma would have made.
We walk along the main street and pass the Natural History Museum, so we decide we may as well stop. It's empty, of course. The collection is a little dated, but there's something pleasingly academic about the place. The four floors of the old building are filled with cabinets and glass displays that look like they belong in a university. Every now and then we find a specimen left by some jokester: a piece of rubber hose with the snakes, the blind mole mice arranged in a threesome. Har har.
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Sofia Archaeological Museum
8/13 Tuesday
For some reason, booking our next apartment is taking forever. There are plenty of places available, but as soon as we settle on one, we find something problematic about it, no AC, noisy disco nearby, shared balcony. One is just gorgeous, all new, but the kitchen is a counter with a sink, no appliances or means of cooking anything. We ask the host about it, thinking he might be interested in getting a hot plate or something, but no, he's all eh, whatever.
After a couple hours of this, we give up and walk to the city center where we find the Archeology Institute's Museum. This is a very impressive collection, set in a building that might have been a church, with a high domed and vaulted ceiling. There are fragments and statues, jewelry, icons and frescos, from the Stone Age to the 17th Century. Bob enjoys it quite a lot.
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ILLEGAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES /CBC TV
Azerbaijani archaeologists are concerned over the illegal archaeological excavations carried out by the Armenians in ancient period caves located in Azikh, Taghlar and Shusha areas and armenisation of the findings. Leading researcher at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Azad Zeynalov says that there are facts about the involvement in the excavations of specialists from England, Spain and Ireland.
The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe
In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.P. Thompson, and fourteen-year-old Elena Lagadinova, the youngest female member of the armed anti-fascist resistance. But these people were not merely anti-fascist; they were pro-communist, idealists moved by their socialist principles to fight and sometimes die for a cause they believed to be right. Victory brought forty years of communist dictatorship followed by unbridled capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Today in democratic Eastern Europe there is ever-increasing despair, disenchantment with the post-communist present, and growing nostalgia for the communist past. These phenomena are difficult to understand in the West, where “communism” is a dirty word that is quickly equated with Stalin and Soviet labor camps. By starting with the stories of people like Thompson and Lagadinova, Ghodsee provides a more nuanced understanding of how communist ideals could inspire ordinary people to make extraordinary sacrifices.
The Left Side of History bears witness to Kristen Ghodsee's intellectual courage, analytic gifts, and profound compassion. She offers portraits of people for whom communism was a living ideology, a belief system that compelled self-sacrifice and nobility, and she does this by looking at their actions rather than criticizing or deconstructing their beliefs.
(Elizabeth Frank, Pulitzer-prize winning biographer)
The marvel of this beautifully written book is to address a complex set of historical questions in intimate and personal terms. It's stunning as ethnography, but also part memoir—an account of Kristen Ghodsee's quest to satisfy her curiosity about the fate of Frank Thompson, a British partisan killed fighting the Nazis in Bulgaria in 1944. The story she ends up telling is much larger: about communism as an aspiration and a political system; about the economic and social impacts of democracy and free markets after 1989; about the preservation and erasure of public memory; about the relationship of individuals to history. It's a small story with vivid characters and a very large resonance. Best of all, it's a gripping and compelling read.
(Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study)
The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe by Kristen Ghodsee
Duke University Press, January 2015
$23.95 paperback
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Book trailer directed and produced by David Redmon of Carnivalesque Films:
PLOVDIV, Bulgaria #TopHiddenTreasures (HD video)
Plovdiv was chosen to present Bulgaria in the #TоpHiddenTreasures ranking by Mastercard. The city on 7 hills today ranks among the most ancient cities in Europe. On one of them is the Old town and its streets are made from another hill. I am sharing in this video my favorite places in Plovdiv and my full walk there. Check out on bettytravels.com the other destinations in Europe, listed in the ranking. I hope you get inspired to visit at least one of them and to include Plovdiv on your travel bucket list.
Producer: bettytravels.com
Video: Tedd Georgiev Cinematography
Editor: Tsvetelina Tsankova
Music: bensound.com
Styling: Percian, Clothing: Knapp
Thanks for the support to:
Mastercard Europe
The Ancient Plovdiv Municipal Institute
Ethnographic museum Plovdiv
Pavaj restaurant
The cat: Rizhko Vezhdirashidov
Albena Tsankova
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Пловдив бе избран да представи България в класацията #TоpHiddenTreasures на Mastercard. Градът на 7-те тепета днес се нарежда сред най-старите градове в Европа. На едно от тях е разположен Старият град, а от друго са направени паветата по улиците му. Любимите ми места в Пловдив и цялата ми разходка споделям в това видео. На bettytravels.com разгледайте кои са останалите дестинации в Европа, включени в класацията. Дано се вдъхновите да посетите поне една нова и включите Пловдив в плановете си за пътуване.
Продуцент: bettytravels.com
Видео: Tedd Georgiev Cinematography
Монтаж: Цветелина Цанкова
Mузика: bensound.com
Стилист: Персиан, Рокля: Knapp
Благодаря за съдействието на:
Мастеркард Европа
ОИ Старинен Пловдив
Етнографски музей Пловдив
ресторант Паваж
Котето: Рижко Веждирашидов
Албена Цанкова
Creation of a Museum of Contemporary Art in Bulgaria
The work is an action / artistic project starting a process for legal creation of private Museum of contemporary art in Bulgaria (MUSIZ). The artist invites an attorney-in-law to render assistance in relation to the insurance of a Permit for Museum of contemporary art within the meaning of the law on Cultural Heritage in Bulgaria, active since 2009. The process involved: establishing a foundation in public benefit, proving proper premises for the museum, demonstrating permanent sources of financing for the museum activity which were given as a project for the activity of the museum, etc. Among the documents needed for the application were a Certificate of identification of movable cultural values and a Document for the registration of the cultural values...
To Overcome the Barrier / Da Preodoleem Barierata - English subtitles
ATA48 produced the documentary 'To Overcome the Barrier'. The movie shows the way Bulgarian PHD students are trained to work on innovation in different companies. For more info see
Теодосий Спасов Старо добруджанско хоро / Theodosii Spassov Old Dobrudzha Horo
Албум Дълъг път
Старо добруджанско хоро
Теодосий Спасов- кавал
Стефан Мутафчиев- oбр. и дир.
С участието на Ансамбъл за народни песни на Българската телевизия и радио - АНПБТР
The Long Road LP
Old Dobrudzha Horo
Theodosii Spassov- kaval
arr. and cond. by Stefan Moutafchiev
With the participation of Orchestra of The Bulgarian Television and Radio Folk Song Ensamble
Teodosii Spasov
снимки / photos / videos
1. Живият огън на традициите
Етно фестивал Живият огън на традициите-Пътят на килима 2016, Котел, България
Отккриване на арт инсталация Пътят на килима септември 2016 в София
video:
Galina Durmushliyska
Фестивал “Живият огън на традициите”, 21 септември 2018 в София, България, камера: Венцислав Йорданов /
Festival The Living Fire of Traditions, September 21, 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria, camera by Венцислав Йорданов
video:
“Соло кавал импровизация”
Фестивал “Живият огън на традициите” камера: Венцислав Йорданов /
Solo kaval improvisation
Festival The Living Fire of Traditions camera by Венцислав Йорданов
2. Фондация Пътят на Траките
3. Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей - БАН / Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum - BAS ||
List of natural history museums | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:34 1 Africa
00:00:42 1.1 Algeria
00:00:56 1.2 Angola
00:01:12 1.3 Botswana
00:01:24 1.4 Canary Islands
00:01:44 1.5 Egypt
00:02:00 1.6 Ethiopia
00:02:14 1.7 Kenya
00:02:28 1.8 Mozambique
00:02:41 1.9 Namibia
00:02:56 1.10 South Africa
00:03:58 1.11 Sudan
00:04:10 1.12 Tanzania
00:04:24 1.13 Tunisia
00:04:36 1.14 Uganda
00:05:04 1.15 Zimbabwe
00:05:17 2 Asia
00:05:26 2.1 China
00:06:38 2.2 India
00:07:26 2.3 Indonesia
00:07:39 2.4 Iran
00:08:23 2.5 Iraq
00:08:35 2.6 Israel
00:09:03 2.7 Japan
00:11:35 2.8 Jordan
00:11:46 2.9 Kyrgyzstan
00:11:59 2.10 Malaysia
00:12:14 2.11 Mongolia
00:12:32 2.12 Oman
00:12:44 2.13 Pakistan
00:12:56 2.14 Philippines
00:13:16 2.15 Qatar
00:13:28 2.16 Singapore
00:13:42 2.17 South Korea
00:14:04 2.18 Taiwan
00:14:34 2.19 Thailand
00:17:35 2.20 United Arab Emirates
00:17:48 2.21 Uzbekistan
00:18:00 2.22 Vietnam
00:18:16 3 Central America
00:18:25 3.1 Belize
00:18:38 3.2 Costa Rica
00:19:16 3.3 Dominican Republic
00:19:37 3.4 Grenada
00:19:48 3.5 Guatemala
00:20:19 3.6 Honduras
00:20:31 3.7 Nicaragua
00:21:26 3.8 Panama
00:22:24 4 Europe
00:22:33 4.1 Albania
00:22:45 4.2 Armenia
00:23:00 4.3 Austria
00:24:49 4.4 Azerbaijan
00:25:12 4.5 Belarus
00:25:29 4.6 Belgium
00:25:46 4.7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:26:00 4.8 Bulgaria
00:26:50 4.9 Croatia
00:27:50 4.10 Czech Republic
00:28:09 4.11 Denmark
00:28:35 4.12 Estonia
00:28:52 4.13 Finland
00:29:23 4.14 France
00:31:21 4.15 Georgia
00:31:44 4.16 Germany
00:35:08 4.17 Greece
00:35:45 4.18 Greenland
00:35:57 4.19 Hungary
00:37:14 4.20 Iceland
00:37:27 4.21 Ireland
00:37:52 4.22 Italy
00:40:51 4.23 Latvia
00:41:03 4.24 Liechtenstein
00:41:15 4.25 Lithuania
00:41:32 4.26 Luxembourg
00:41:45 4.27 Macedonia
00:41:58 4.28 Malta
00:42:11 4.29 Moldova
00:42:24 4.30 Monaco
00:42:36 4.31 Montenegro
00:42:50 4.32 The Netherlands
00:43:58 4.33 Norway
00:44:27 4.34 Poland
00:45:00 4.35 Portugal
00:46:21 4.36 Romania
00:49:15 4.37 Russia
00:50:21 4.38 Serbia
00:50:43 4.39 Slovenia
00:50:58 4.40 Slovakia
00:51:14 4.41 Spain
00:52:53 4.42 Sweden
00:53:55 4.43 Switzerland
00:54:57 4.44 Turkey
00:55:17 4.45 Ukraine
00:56:09 4.46 United Kingdom
00:56:18 4.46.1 England
00:57:49 4.46.2 Scotland
00:58:23 4.46.3 Wales
00:58:37 4.46.4 Northern Ireland
00:58:48 5 North America
00:58:57 5.1 Bermuda
00:59:10 5.2 Canada
00:59:18 5.2.1 Alberta
00:59:41 5.2.2 British Columbia
01:00:11 5.2.3 Manitoba
01:00:51 5.2.4 New Brunswick
01:01:02 5.2.5 Newfoundland
01:01:17 5.2.6 Nova Scotia
01:01:34 5.2.7 Ontario
01:02:04 5.2.8 Quebec
01:02:43 5.2.9 Saskatchewan
01:03:13 5.2.10 Yukon
01:03:30 5.3 Mexico
01:04:34 5.4 United States
01:04:43 6 Oceania
01:04:52 6.1 Australia
01:07:01 6.2 Indonesia
01:08:29 6.3 New Zealand
01:09:02 7 South America
01:09:11 7.1 Argentina
01:13:12 7.2 Bolivia
01:13:41 7.3 Brazil
01:15:04 7.4 Chile
01:15:29 7.5 Colombia
01:16:06 7.6 Ecuador
01:16:20 7.7 Guyana
01:16:32 7.8 Paraguay
01:16:45 7.9 Peru
01:17:04 7.10 Trinidad and Tobago
01:17:21 7.11 Uruguay
01:17:40 7.12 Venezuela
01:18:49 8 See also
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This is a list of natural history museums, also known as museums of natural history, i.e. museums whose exhibits focus on the subject of natural history, including such topics as animals, plants, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, and climatology.
Some museums feature natural-history collections in addition to other collections, such as ones related to history, art and science. In addition, nature centers often include natural-history exhibits.
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Varna (Bulgarian: Варна, Varna [ˈvarna]) is the third-largest city in Bulgaria and the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. Situated strategically in the Gulf of Varna, the city has been a major economic, social and cultural centre for almost three millennia. Varna, historically known as Odessos, grew from a Thracian seaside settlement to a major seaport on the Black Sea.
Varna is an important centre for business, transportation, education, tourism, entertainment and healthcare. The city is referred to as the maritime capital of Bulgaria and headquarters the Bulgarian Navy and merchant marine. In 2008, Varna was designated seat of the Black Sea Euroregion by the Council of Europe. In 2014, Varna was awarded the title of European Youth Capital 2017.The oldest gold treasure in the world, belonging to the Varna culture, was discovered in the Varna Necropolis and dates to 4200–4600 BC.
Bulgaria
Un viaje por Bulgaria, partiendo de la capital Sofia, atravesando la cordillera Balcánica y llegando hasta el Mar Negro, para finalizar en los Monasterios más importantes del país.
English and Ethnology, SWU Neofit Rilski, Blagoevgrad
Югозападният университет е първият у нас, в който започват да се четат лекции по етнология. Това става през 1991 година, когато проф. д.ф.н. Тодор Ив. Живков е поканен да чете лекции и да предложи концепция за разкриване на специалност Етнология. По тази концепция с усилията на доц. д-р Илия Недин и с институционалната подкрепа на катедра Литература през 2007 година програмата е акредитирана под името Английски език и етнология към Филологическия факултет. От 2013 година е акредитирана и магистърската степен към специалността под името Английски език и антропология на Югоизточна Европа. Английският език позволява на студентите свободно да ползват антропологична литература на английски език, да продължат образованието си в чуждестранни университетски центрове по социална и културна антропология, а също така разширява и кръга от възможности за успешната им бъдеща реализация след завършване. Обучението се води от много добри специалисти, които имат изследователски и преподавателски опит и които са чели лекции в различни университети в чужбина - Великобритания, Германия, Естония, Китай, Норвегия, Унгария и др.