The National Museum of Medieval Art in Korça, in cooperation with the Bulgarian Embassy in Albania, organized and opened the exhibition, “Miracle-working icons and holy relics from the Balkans”.

The Ambassador of Bulgaria in Albania, Momtchil Raytchevski, has expressed his satisfaction and admiration for the Museum of Medieval Art, since the first time he visited it. He also expressed his desire and promise to continue the further artistic and cultural collaborations.

Bulgarian Ambassador, Raytchevski enabled the presentation of this very special exhibition and an extremely valuable study of the Slavo-Byzantine Institute, in Sofia, Bulgaria, on the entire Balkans Peninsula.

Director of the National Museum of Medieval Art in Korça, Fjoralba Prifti expressed her appreciation on behalf of the museum staff, for the realization of this exhibition.

Referring to the icons, Fjoralba Prifti added that they could not stand better than in a museum filled with icons and religious objects, miraculously saved.

At the same time, she announced that this was just the beginning of further cultural cooperation with a friendly country of similar culture and traditions like Bulgaria.

The exhibition will be part of the museum’s exhibition for the next two weeks, displaying icons and liturgical objects, which belong to different historical periods and regions of the Post-Byzantine period, medieval Bulgaria, Mount Athos, Bulgarian and Albanian monasteries, and other holy relics from the Balkans.

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