Sozopol Archaeological Museum Contributes Four Artefacts to Forthcoming Ancient Thrace Getty Museum Exhibition

The Archaeological Museum in Sozopol has contributed four artefacts to an upcoming exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California, the museum’s Director, Dimitar Nedev, told BTA. The Ancient Thrace and the Ancient World. Treasures from Bulgaria, Romania and Greece exhibition features more than 150 artifacts. It will be on between November 3 and March 3, 2025, CE Report quotes BTA

"The exhibition is an emanation of the policy of Bulgaria's Ministry of Culture to promote the cultural heritage of antiquity, especially the Thracian treasures. Sozopol, and particularly the exhibits from ancient Apollonia, always accompany these treasures. Why? Because it is the most ancient city on the territory of modern Bulgaria. And since its foundation at the end of the 7th century BC, it has had a special function - the Hellenic influences that penetrated the lands of ancient Thrace passed through this city. It was here that the urban culture and civilization of the Western Pontic coast was born, which spread in the following centuries on Thracian soil,“ Nedev told BTA.

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