site.btaMajor Museums in Sofia Open Their Doors during European Heritage Days

Some of Sofia’s major museums has opened their doors to the public on the occasion of the European Heritage Days, September 21 and 22. 

The National Polytechnic Museum is taking part in the initiative, offering free admission on both days. Visitors will be able to view the permanent exhibition, the 310 Years of the Typewriter exhibition, which has been enriched with new exhibits, and the Sofia, Caught in Time photo exhibition by Elina Ninova, presenting the capital’s iconic buildings.

The National Museum of Literature provides free entry to the house museums of Ivan Vazov, P. K. Yavorov, and Nikola Y. Vaptsarov and the Beyond the Barrier exhibition paying tribute to novelist and scriptwriter Pavel Vezhinov on his 110th birth anniversary.

The Earth and Man National Museum offers ticket discounts. In addition to the permanent exhibition, the public will be able to view the temporary exhibitions New Acquisition, The Fairy Tale of the Green Stone, In the Wonderful World of Concretions, and Smart Minerals for Smartphones.

The National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) opens its doors to children up to 14 years. They will be able to see the permanent exhibition, the temporary exhibition Contemporary Challenges for Bulgarian Biospeleology and Denitsa Peneva’s solo exhibition Illustratorium II.

September 22 will be a free admission day at the National Archaeological Institute with Museum at BAS due to Bulgaria's Independence Day and the European Heritage Days. Visitors will also be able to view the temporary exhibition The Lords of the Salt which showcases more than 530 artifacts discovered during excavations of the salt mining and urban centre of Provadia-Solnitsata. The exhibits included date back to the Late Prehistory, the Late Hellenistic period, and Antiquity.

European Heritage Days take place in the 50 signatory countries to the European Cultural Convention every September. They were co-organized by the Council of Europe and the European Union, which launched the action in 1985. European Heritage Days are most widely celebrated participatory cultural events shared by the inhabitants and visitors of Europe, providing access to thousands of rarely opened sites and unique events to over 20 million people every year.