Museology

Special themed museum tours begin this Saturday in "Square 500".

The permanent exhibition of the National Gallery presents, in principle, the most significant examples of Bulgarian fine art, as well as works by European masters, art from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The museum tours that start this Saturday are very different from anything that has been done so far.

Museum Selfie Day will be celebrated on Jan. 16 in more than 300 museums and ancient sites in Turkey in order to increase interest in museums and historical sites.

Entrance to archaeological sites, monuments and museums will be free of charge on Sunday (Dec. 2).

The same rule applies on the first Sunday of every month from November to March every year, according to a decision by the Culture Ministry.

The municipality of Yambol is working to create an integrated tourism product, Mayor Georgi Slavov told Focus Radio. He said the biggest challenge was to spark interest in local heritage. Bulgaria's great contribution to Europe's cultural and historical heritage is visible, he said. "We have so much history, so much potential, but we have to find the way to present it.

''Bulgaria will propose to the World Tourism Organisation and UNESCO the creation of a global route of ancient civilisations'', Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova said during the 2nd International Congress of World Civilisations and Historical Routes, Focus News Agency reports.

Two Bulgarian women were convicted to four years in prison on Tuesday for vandalizing exhibits in three Athens museums with an oily substance.

They can buy off their sentences by paying 5 euros for each day.

The women, aged 48 and 51, damaged exhibits at the Byzantine, Benaki and National Historical museums in late July, August and September.

New site of the United Nations Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization UNESCO for travels popularizes destinations, including the ancient town of Nesebar, the press center of Nesebar announced.

Sofia. The Inspectorate for Protection of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) of the Ministry of Culture has begun inspections of the state of buildings declared immovable cultural heritage in the Sofia city centre, the Ministry of Culture told Focus News Agency.

The ancient city of Kastabala in the southern province of Osmaniye's Cevdetiye district is 1,500 years older than previously thought, archaeologists working at the excavations have found, making the history of the site date back 3,500 years.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said on Wednesday that direct payments granted to farmers in a timely manner have produced the expected effects, mentioning that Romania has obtained for the first time more that 10.2 million tonnes in summer wheat crops, with the estimates of autumn crops being encouraging.