site.bta Exhibitions Highlight Trends and Concepts, Archaeology Professor Says

Exhibitions abroad are important for what they show as facts, but they are also important for the trends they outline, and these trends are clear to archaeologists abroad, archaeology professor Totko Stoyanov of the Department of Archaeology at Sofia University said here Monday. He was speaking at the launch of the new issue of BTA's LIK magazine for culture and art, held at the National Institute of Archaeology with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia.

"Bulgaria's Cultural Heritage Travels the World" is the theme of the March issue. The event was held in hybrid format with guests joining by video conference from the national press clubs of BTA in the country and abroad.

Prof. Stoyanov noted that sometimes there is a dispute about the concepts behind exhibitions: what, how much and how to show at these exhibitions abroad, which is natural, because the researchers who participate in these exhibitions have different views.

There have been striking finds from Thrace in the last one or two decades, Prof. Stoyanov. He added that presenting the Bulgarian heritage abroad is linked to the Bulgarian history and culture. 

There is a lot to be done and so far there is no university programme for restoration and conservation of archaeological artefacts, said Prof. Stoyanov. 

On the pages of the LIK magazine Prof. Totko Stoyanov talks about his experience as a curator of the exhibition "The Epic of the Thracian Kings", presented at the Louvre in Paris in 2015.