The exhibition "The Women of Burgas in the 1930s and 1940s" returns to the Ethnographic Museum in Burgas from 9 November 2026. Locals love it more than most other exhibitions. It is about city culture and the spirit of old Burgas.

It features photographs, paintings, clothes, fashion accessories and memories from the first half of the 20th century. They show the daily life and fashion of city women.

The organisers say it is hard to build a single image of a woman from Burgas, so the exhibition follows two lines: the ordinary woman, whether a girl, a wife or a housewife, and the famous woman who found success around the world.

One of them is Dora Popova, a dancer at the Folies Bergère cabaret in Paris. The museum has her fan and a heavy silk shawl with rich hand embroidery.

Burgas photographers took candid shots of girls on the beach and in the Sea Garden. They also photographed brides in elegant wedding dresses and families strolling along the pier and on Bogoridi Street. The pictures include the well-known Burgas beauty Vanya Morska.

The organisers say Burgas was already a cosmopolitan city, open to the world, and its women were unusual, beautiful, different, modern and free-thinking.

The museum is at 69 Slavyanska Street. The exhibition will be open until the end of March 2027.