The Exhibition "19th Century Luxury" will be shown in Kazanlak

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21 Dec

The Exhibition "19th Century Luxury" will be shown in Kazanlak

One of the most successful mobile exhibitions of Burgas Museum will be in Kazanlak this winter.

Two days before Christmas - 23.12.2017 (Saturday), the exhibition "19th Century Luxury" will be opened in the multimedia hall of the Historical Museum "Iskra" - Kazanlak. The exhibition is a result of the joint project of Regional historical museum - Burgas and Regional historical museum - Rousse.
The exhibits are part of the collections of luxury objects, which RHM Burgas in 1996 and 2000 after their detention by Customs Burgas, in an attempt to smuggle cultural heritage through the territory of Bulgaria. In the period 2008 - 2016 the objects are included in the exhibition "Donated and Rescued Treasures", which for years enjoyed high visitor interest in the hall of the Historical Exposition in Burgas on 31 Lermontov" St.
The "French Collection" received in the museum in 1996 includes 13 desk clocks, 32 pcs. vases and 11 pcs. candlesticks, lampshades, chandeliers, silver trays, silver liquor service and a boudoir. In 2000, they were detained at the Customs and sent to the Museum, the "Romanian collection", which contains paintings, picture frames, mirrors, carved chest and workshops made in Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italian studios and part of the interiors of European homes from the early 20th century.
"The 19th Century Luxury" presents the trends and ideas in art from the time of the European Enlightenment, the changes that followed the Industrial Revolution in England, the modernization and development of creative images in the 19th to the early 20th century.
For more than three years now the Regional Museums of Burgas and Rousse have united around the topic "The 19th Century Luxury". Thus, the Burgas collection of "rescued treasures", in the form of a mobile exhibition, reaches an wider audience.

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