Exhibits of the National Ethnographic Museum are in Wittgenstein House on the occasion of the National Day of Bulgaria On the eve and on the occasion of the National Day of Bulgaria, on 3 March 2020, the exhibition "First impression is from your clothes..." was opened in Wittgenstein House in Vienna. It was part of the program to mark 142 years since the Liberation of Bulgaria. A special guest of the event was our country's ambassador to Austria, H.E. Dr. Ivan Sirakov. The National Ethnographic Museum - Sofia presented costumes and jewelry from its collection and aquarelles of the artist Evgenia Lepavtsova. The story of the Bulgarians' clothing will be in Vienna until 28 March 2020. The curators of the exhibition are Vasil Baltadzhiev and [...]

Two digitalization laboratories will be set up at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum of BAS which participates in the “Heritage BG” Center of Excellence. The “Digital Ethnographic Archive” laboratory will digitize photographs, sketches, drawings and documents collected in the Institute’s descriptive anthropology archive since 1906. Their digitization will provide easy and quick access to them by scientists and society. At the same time, valuable historical and ethnographic artifacts will be stored under the necessary conditions to preserve them, without difficulty in handling the information contained therein. The Laboratory for the Digitization of Intangible Cultural Heritage will be situated in the National Center of Intangible Cultural Heritage (NCICH) at IEFSEM - BAS. It will aim to document, preserve and promote the [...]