Denitsa Chavdarova was the representative of the Historical Museum - Perushtitsa in the Spanish town of Sagunto from 16 to 20 April 2018 at the largest ancient festival, recreating the culture of ancient Rome, where there is an exchange between museums and teachers from Spain, Italy, France, Slovakia , Portugal and Bulgaria, funded by the Erasmus program. Opportunities for exchange of exhibitions, organization of new workshops and festivals in Europe were discussed.

At a round table on "In Search of Terra Besika" in the conference hall of Rakitovo Municipality, organized on May 26, 2018 by the President of the Association "Sutkya" Svilen Topchiev with specialists from Rhodope museums, the director of the Historical Museum in Perushtitsa Assoc. Dr. Veselina Vachkova commented on the role of the Bessi as Thracian priests. The historian Valentin Yordanov talks about the descendants of Poseidon, Zeus and Hades in Southern Thrace, Prof. Yordan Detev presented interesting facts on the occasion of 50 years of excavations near the Asenovgrad village of Muldava, 

At the international ceramic plein air "Bridges of Arts: Ceramics", which was opened on May 31, 2018 with a seminar at the Museum of History of Sofia, the director of the Historical Museum in Perushtitsa Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veselina Vachkova presented the main report "Ceramics - domestic and spiritual necessity of our ancestors ”. Our friend and colleague in the historical pursuits Prof. Yordan Detev presented the symbols of the ancient ceramics and explained their meaning.

The mysteries of the Thracians gathered every evening from 9 pm the enthusiastic fans of history and art in a theatrical space near the covered saved ruins from Serdika to the metro station "Serdika". The script of the production was written by Hristo Bukovski, and the producer Dimitar Kabakov hired the choreographer Svetlin Ivelinov to direct it. Thus was born an entirely dance performance, in which the male military and "wolf" performances, which necessarily accompanied them at the time, stand out.

The premiere of the novel "Do you catch a fairy" by Hristo Bukovski gathered on Vidovden (June 15) in front of the emblematic Sofia bookstore "Bulgarian Books" spiritual companions of the author and zealous admirers of literature.

With her report "The Misunderstood Idea of a Forgotten Hero: Spas Ginov and the Self-Sacrifice of Perushtitsa" Mihaela Bozhilova brilliantly presented the Historical Museum in Perushtitsa at the international scientific conference "Heroes. Ideas. Events "in the town of Tutrakan, dedicated to the 245th anniversary of the victory of Generalissimo Alexander V. Suvorov in Tutrakan, 140 years since the Liberation of Bulgaria and the 120th anniversary of the Tetrakan publishing house" Mavrodinov ", which took place on June 7, 2018.

At the beginning of July 2018, the guide to the Historical Museum - Perushtitsa Kristina Vasileva attended seminar 8 "Museum - School" in Plovdiv, which is part of the practical training "Museums as social and educational spaces".

Roads and images of holiness 

Report by Dr. Veselina Vachkova from the Institute for Historical Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, director of the Perushtitsa Historical Museum and lecturer at BGDEK. Presented at the XXIII Historical Conference "Bulgaria in World Civilization - Spirit and Culture", Varna, November 23-25, 2018.

From 13 to 16 December in Plovdiv, Trimontium Hotel will be held a major international scientific conference on the problems of digitization (archiving) of cultural heritage. It will be attended by 43 scientists from around the world. A final report from 11 a.m. on Friday (December 15) on the topic of CULTURAL HERITAGE FOR "VIRTUAL PEOPLE" will be presented by our representative Yordan Detev, who then invited members of the conference to visit IM Perushtitsa.