150th Jubilee of BAS

Pupils from 4th primary school "Prof. John Atanasoff” in Sofia will visit, on April 18th, the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum (IEFSEM). They will learn about the main features of St. Lazar’s holiday - its place and meaning in the spring maiden ritual; about the various actions that make up the preparation and the actual feast; about the specific elements in the clothing of the lazarki; about the ritual jewelry and utensils used, etc. Children will learn all this from archival videos from different regions of the country which are stored at the National Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage at IEFSEM - BAS as well as from artifacts in the museum's representative exposition. Having been collected for decades by researchers at [...]

A hundred and fifty trees will be planted by scientists and employees of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on the occasion of Earth Day 22 April. It is an initiative of the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography (NIGGG) and the Forest Institute (FI) and is dedicated to the 150th jubilee of BAS. The green areas will be planted in front of NIGGG building in the scientific complex of BAS at 4th km. Saplings of more than 25 deciduous and coniferous species, mostly of local origin, as well as beautiful flowering trees are selected. The tree species are selected according to the conditions of the terrain, and their contact with the existing vegetation is also respected. The adjacent green areas around NIGGG are pre-zoned, [...]