The travelling exhibition “The City of Black Gold” comes to the Palace – Balchik
On September 17, the Stone Hall of SCI CC “The Palace” – Balchik will open the travelling exhibition “The City of Black Gold” by the Regional History Museum – Pernik.
The exhibition traces the transformation of Pernik from a small village after the Liberation to a modern industrial town. The rich coal deposits beneath the medieval fortress gave a powerful impetus to industry and reshaped the demographic, social and cultural profile of the settlement. Declared a town in 1929, Pernik became one of the fastest-growing towns in Bulgaria and the first with a modern urban plan, developed with the contribution of mining specialists from across Europe.
Today, the large-scale industry built on coal mining is largely in the past. The exhibition preserves the memory of the people whose labour built modern Pernik.
Visitors will see 10 panels with archival photographs and 10 authentic objects and models related to underground work: a mine telephone, a theodolite, a Triumphator calculating machine, a methane measuring device, miners’ lamps, self-rescuers, models of a coal seam and a mining face, and a candlestick made of coal.
The exhibition is complemented by an educational animation featuring 3D models of the objects and explanatory texts in Bulgarian and English.
The official opening of the exibition will be on September 12 at 2:00pm in "Stone Hall" at SCI CC "The Palace", Balchik. Please join us!
The exibition can be seen every day in the period - September 17 – October 15, 2026
