Contemporary Museum and Gallery Education practices:

Local Communities meet Global Narratives, May 22-23, 2015

Vera Boneva

TO LEARN AND CREATE AMONG THE TREASURES:

INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES OF BULGARIAN MUSEUMS

Bulgaria

110,994 sq km territory

7.4 million inhabitants

EU member from 2007

Sofia – capital city

Plovdiv – 2019 EUcapital of culture

Eastern Orthodoxy –traditional religion (85% of population)

214 state and 4 privatemuseums

32 archeological reserves

9 UNESCO Heritage Sites

Five museum/gallery plots from Bulgaria

Regional Museum of History in the town of Dobrich as a meeting point of culturaldiversities and rich historical traditions of Dodrudzha – a geographical region, shared between Bulgaria and Romania

National Museum of History in Sofia as a significant heritage institution withrepresentative status and essential functions with regard maintaining an explicit national consciousness

Eco-Museum in Ruse as a brand new cultural and educational topos with greatpotential for eco-activities, targeted to a large scale of audiences

Panagyurishte Municipality Museum as a special cultural network loaded witha strong attractiveness for all generations of Bulgarian citizens tempted by ourhistorical narratives and national myths

Trakart Museum in Plovdiv as a private museum and art center with strong presence in local cultural life

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Regional Museum of History – Dobrich

P1. Ex-Romanian Casino – Museum of Modern History

P2. Presentation of a book

about Romania in the Yordan Yovkov Museum

P3. Replica of a Revival Bulgarian schoolroom –

popular space for educational activities

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National History Museum – Sofia

P1. Main building of the Museum

P2. Permanent exhibition

P3. A future judge in the museum workshop

Eurovision Museum Exhibiting Europe – EMEE project

The aim of the EMEE-project is to make museums more accessible in many ways:with an innovative and interdisciplinary approach developed by history didactics the project wants to re-interpret museum objects and put them into a broader context of national and transnational history.

The EMEE project is supposed to be realised by a European trans-sectionalconsortium, led by the University of Augsburg - Germany (Chair of History Didactics) and composed by excellent partners from Bulgaria (National History Museum), France (Université Paris-Est Créteil, Chair for technology, design and visual arts), Germany-Stuttgart (Atelier Brückner), Italy (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Portugal (Museu Nacional de Arqueologia), Slovenia (National Museum of Contemporary History) and Austria (monochrom Kunstverein).

The project develops innovative and creative concepts (tools) to realize the ‘change of perspective’ as the key to ‘Europeanisation’ of museum work.These concepts are provided online and on a trial base in the Eurovision Labs of all participating partners. Internet site: www.museums-exhibiting-europe.de

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P3 Eco-Museum in Ruse

P1. Renovated building

P2. Diorama – birds in their habitat

P3. Mammuthus romanus taken captive

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P2 Panagyurishte Museum

P1. Tutev’s House – a dwelling place of Bulgarian Revival spirit

P2. A section of permanent exhibition,devoted to the April Uprising – 1876

P3. The underground exhibition hall with the Panagyurishte golden treasure

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P2 Trakart Museum in Plovdiv

P1. In situ Roma mosaics with a part of permanent exhibition

P2. Disabled people creating mosaics in the Trakart Center

P3. Childrenʼs songs and dances into the Museum P

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