Interactive Exhibition "Folk Astronomy and Meteorology"

REGIONAL ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM – PLOVDIV

Is pleased to invite You to an interactive exhibition:
“Folk Astronomy and Meteorology”

    The exhibition illustrates folk believes about the star sky, the Sun, the Moon, the stars and comets as well as meteorological phenomena as rain, snow, lightning, thunder, rainbow, fog, dew, clouds, wind etc. Folk astronomy involves ancient our ancestors’ observations on stars and constellations, the cosmic cycles they found have some significant influence over growth and life on earth. Folk meteorology consists in weather predicting according to plants, animals and natural phenomena.

    The Ethnographic Museum preserves folk material culture as well as folk believes, and customs, presenting them in an actual and interactive way. The Ethnographic Museum preserves folk material culture but also the spiritual culture of the Bulgarian people – folklore, traditions, believes and customs by presenting them in an actual and interactive way. Here you can feel fog as steam coming out of a dragon’s nostrils, to see how on St. George’s Day every raindrop becomes a golden coin, to meet the Great Bear and to learn many interesting methods of weather predicting by natural phenomena, plants and animals. To learn how magic spells and divinations about fertility are made, to rediscover constellations in an interactive model of the north celestial hemisphere, to enjoy riddles, fairy tales and many other.

    The exhibition will open on April 23rd 2015, at 18:00 in Regional Ethnographic Museum – Plovdiv.

At the opening in 17:30 Assoc. Prof. Alexey Stoev from the National Institute of cosmology at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences will hold a lecture on cosmology.

    You are welcome to the world of stars and clouds from 23.04 to 01.06.2015!

Supported by:
Bulgarian Ministry of Culture
“Friends of REM – Plovdiv” Club
Regional Natural History Museum – Plovdiv