The NMMH participates with artefacts in a project which interprets the topic of hunger

The National Museum of Military History is a partner of Art Gallery – Kazanlak in the exhibition “Hunger”, which will be opened on 19 October.

The NMMH participates with artefacts from its museum collection which render the topic of physical hunger in the context of war. Among them are field accessories of the Commander-in-Chief of the Active Army in the First World War (1915–1918), Lieutenant General Nikola Zhekov, personal effects of Colonel Aleksandar Protogerov, Commander of 3rd Brigade of 11th Macedonian Infantry Division in the First World War, and of Colonel Stoycho Garufalov, battalion commander within 29th Yambol Regiment during the Balkan Wars (1912–1913), as well as a number of other items of soldier’s military life during the Wars for National Unification.

The quote “one could very easily replace the word hunger with the word terror, or with the word servitude, or lawlessness, or dictatorship” from the essay “A Play for the Ikas… and for the Bulgarians” by writer Georgi Markov sums up the conceptual idea of the exhibition “Hunger”, which can be seen in Kazanlak from 19 October through 31 March 2025.