A fun workshop for martenitsas and textile printing has been organized today by the National Polytechnic Museum in Sofia (on 66 Opalchenska St.) Visitors can make their own martenitsas and also step into the role of "master basmajji". Basmadji..
A Christmas greeting, a marriage proposal or news about the end of the war. All of this was written on a postcard without an envelope and a stamp and was delivered to an address. The past does not seem to be as far away as we think, reminds the..
On September 15, a total of 1948 schools across Bulgaria welcomed their students and about 57,000 children heard the school bell for the first time. And while the idea of school as a source of knowledge is at the heart of every society, school is..
1 May 1879 is the date on which the first Bulgarian postage stamp went into circulation, depicting a lion standing upright in profile with a crown on its head and the words “Bulgarian post”. But as, after the Bulgaria’s liberation..
A guest exhibition at the National Polytechnic Museum in Sofia reveals the story of a true troubadour from the first half of the twentieth century. Stoyan Milenkov was born in 1889 in Breznik and his activities do not fit into a simple..
