New Exhibition and Free Admission at the National Museum of Military History
On 27 November (Thursday) – the forgotten Day of Victories, at 4:00 p.m., the exhibition “War and the Creatives: The Path through the Dark” will open at the National Museum of Military History at 92 “Cherkovna” Str. in Sofia. After a brief closure due to maintenance works, the Museum will reopen on 27 November and on 28 November admission will be free as a gesture to all those who did not have the opportunity to visit it in recent weeks.
The exhibition “War and the Creatives: The Path through the Dark” is dedicated to three important anniversaries in Bulgaria’s history – 140 years since the Serbo-Bulgarian War, 110 years since the country’s entry into the First World War and 80 years since the end of the Second World War. It is an audio-visual journey in which war is presented through the eyes of creatives – artists, writers, photographers, who were on the battlefields of the 5 wars Bulgaria had fought. How they saw the Bulgarian soldier on the front line and the person in the rear, how the heavy footsteps of war echoed in their inner world, these are just some of the questions the exhibition seeks answers. Some of the most emotional works, revealing the feelings and experiences of these storytellers are reenacted by renowned Bulgarian actors Asen Blatechki, Boyko Krastanov, Gergana Pletnyova, Rusi Chanev, Stefan Mavrodiev, and Yulian Vergov.
This is a different, more human view of history – not through facts and dates, but through the emotion that remains in a person’s inner world. Among the presented creatives are military artists such as Jaroslav Věšín, Vladimir Dimitrov – The Master, Boris Denev, Yakim Banchev, etc. distinguished writers such as Ivan Vazov, Yordan Yovkov, Dimcho Debelyanov, Stamen Panchev, Stefan Runevski, Georgi Raychev, Nikolay Liliev, photographers like the Karastoyanov family, Georgi Voltz, Petar Morozov and dozens more who, with words, brush, camera or film, captured for generations the image of war and shaped in a unique way the pulse of public sentiment by turning the spotlight toward what moves the ordinary person.
Using various expressive means and organically integrated digital solutions – augmented reality and interactive applications, the exhibition offers a new approach in which modern technologies become a natural continuation of the museum narrative and open the space toward the type of experience that modern person is looking for.
Alongside the exhibition, the museum team has prepared an accompanying educational program suitable for adolescents and families, through which they will acquire new knowledge and will develop their sensitivity and creative approach to reality.
The exhibition and educational program are implemented through a project supported financially by the Ministry of Culture and with the support of the Ministry of Defence.
