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Children will paint eggs in a National Ethnographic Museum workshop

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An egg-painting workshops is opening today in the garden of the former Knyazheski palace, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences’ National Ethnographic Museum has announced. The Museum is co-organizer of the event, alongside Sofia municipality.  

During the workshop, museum experts will demonstrate the traditional egg-dyeing technique and will tell the children about the ritual Easter practices, the role of the red egg in legends and customs, and about the patterns on the painted eggs and what they symbolize.

The participants will be able to paint their own eggs, and for the youngest children there will be games.  



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