National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | News

During the last three decades, numerous fossil remains of birds have been discovered and studied in Bulgaria, which reveal a significantly greater diversity of the Neogene avifauna than was previously thought. Among the important discoveries are the first European finds of hornbills, one of the earliest fossil snake-eagles, Neogene pheasants, as well as the first remains of ostr...

On October 13 and 14, 2026 in Kyustendil, the Third National Meeting of Museum Educators took place as themed Art as a tool for expanding the geographical and social boundaries of museum pedagogy...

The GREEN TALENT project serves as the Bulgarian demonstration “hub” for biodiversity knowledge and Bulgarian partners in the project include the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy, and Geography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and the international scientific publisher Pensoft...

On 25 September 2026, at 5:30 PM, in the museum foyer, Prof. Pavel Stoev, Director of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, opened a guest exhibition “The Marine World Through the Lens of Science: Hidden Ecosystems of European Coasts”...

From 7 to 11 September 2026, the 34th European Vegetation Survey (EVS) Conference took place in Clermont-Ferrand, France, with the participation of Sen. Assist. Salza Palpurina, PhD, from the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NMNHS)...