Bucharest, Nov 12 /Agerpres/ – The exhibition “Beyond Danube – An Imaginary Journey into the Maps of the Soul of the Bulgarian Exile (1820-1870)”, curated by the manager of the Museum of the Municipality of Bucharest, Adrian Majuru, will be varnished this Friday at the Regional Museum in Varna (Bulgaria).

The Museum of the Municipality of Bucharest is organizing this exhibition both for the purpose of revisiting a common past and out of a desire to discover possible maps of the soul “that brings us closer and define us, as Romanian and Bulgarians alike,” Adrian Majuru wrote in the presentation of the exhibition, according to a press release of the Museum.

“We are trying to imagine, through the litographs and watercolors, chromolitographs and contemporary photographs of this pre-modern exile of the Bulgarian culture and nation, how were these people put in motion by the first images of a promised liberty. We will also try to travel in the footsteps of revolutionary poet Hristo Botev, through the Danube ports, then through the streets of Bucharest, the city that hosted him for years, but also through Bessarabia, a Romanian province back then, if we are going to refer to its southern part,” explained the historian.

The exhibition brings together objects that are shown for the first time, such as, for instance, the map of the Giurgiu vilayet, and also a series of objects that offer an image of the Danube ports from the middle of the 19th century.

“They portray a valuable image of history, unique through the details captured in real time by their authors, offering thus the visitors the possibility of looking back from our time to the urban daily life known by the Bulgarian emigrants in the 19th century,” shows the Museum in the abovementioned press release.

The exhibition will stay open until March 30, 2025.