Gold treasures and artefacts from 14 Bulgarian museums go on display at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles

The bronze head sculpture of Ancient Thracian King Seuthes III, the Panagyurishte gold treasure and the Rogozen treasure will be on display in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles for 4 months.

More than 150 exhibits from 14 Bulgarian museums will take part in the exhibition "Ancient Thrace and the Ancient World. Treasures from Bulgaria, Romania and Greece". The exposition will run from November 3 to March 3 next year.

The exhibition at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles will be one of the most remarkable because it brings together some of the most significant artifacts from the Thracian period.

"The main focus is on the Thracian culture, with the narrative starting from the end of the Bronze Age - the second millennium BC - to reach the classical and most familiar periods associated with the Thracian kings, with the time of the Macedonian state later, to reach the Roman Empire, when Thrace became a Roman province," said Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hristo Popov, director of National Archaeological Institute with Museum-Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

The largest gold treasure in Bulgaria - the Valchitran treasure, as well as silver vessels from the Duvanli burial mounds will also be on display in Los Angeles.

"Museums in Bulgaria in general are a neglected sphere, they are not so scandalous and attractive in this sense and the opportunity to be funded is small, respectively the opportunities to experience the work of world-class specialists in the museum system appears only in such situations when we can participate in such an exhibition," said Desislava Davidova, deputy director of the Regional Archaeological Museum - Plovdiv.

"There is a tradition in America that museums are highly visited, so this will make Bulgaria more recognizable for its cultural heritage," said Ekaterina Dzhumalieva, director of the Cultural Heritage, Museums and Fine Arts Directorate at the Ministry of Culture.

Since the ancient Thracian lands extend beyond the modern borders of Bulgaria, exhibits from Greece and Romania also will be featured in the exhibition.