site.btaBucharest Museum's "Bulgarian Exile" Exhibition Goes on Tour in Varna, Bulgaria

An exhibition titled "Beyond Danube - an Imaginary Journey into the Maps of the Soul of the Bulgarian Exile (1820-1870)" opens Friday at the Regional Museum in Varna. The exhibition is organized by the Bucharest Municipality Museum and is curated by its manager, Adrian Majuru, Agerpres reported.

The Bucharest Museum is organizing this exhibition both for the purpose of revisiting a common past and out of a desire to discover possible maps of the soul "that brings us closer and define us, as Romanian and Bulgarians alike," Adrian Majuru wrote in the presentation of the exhibition.

"We are trying to imagine, through the lithographs and watercolors, chromolithographs and contemporary photographs of this pre-modern exile of the Bulgarian culture and nation, how were these people put in motion by the first images of a promised liberty. We will also try to travel in the footsteps of revolutionary poet Hristo Botev, through the Danube ports, then through the streets of Bucharest, the city that hosted him for years, but also through Bessarabia, a Romanian province back then, if we are going to refer to its southern part," explained the historian.

The exhibition brings together objects that are shown for the first time, such as, for instance, the map of the Giurgiu vilayet, and also a series of objects that offer an image of the Danube ports from the middle of the 19th century.

The exhibition will be on until March 30, 2025.