The exhibition “Slovoto” (“The Word”) is dedicated to 24 May – the Day of Bulgarian Education and Culture and the Slavonic Script. 24 May according to the Gregorian calendar, or 11 May according to the ecclesiastical liturgical calendar, is also the Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius – the creators of the Glagolitic alphabet (the first Bulgarian alphabet).
The exhibition consists of ten panels displaying the words: life, freedom, peace, truth, love, good, light, eyes, knowledge and wisdom, written in Cyrillic (the modern Bulgarian alphabet), with elements from Glagolitic inscriptions and images from Old Bulgarian manuscripts incorporated into the letters. The exhibition also includes a ten-minute film about the Glagolitic alphabet – the first Bulgarian alphabet, created in 862 by St. Cyril; the Cyrillic alphabet – the second Bulgarian alphabet, created at the end of the 9th century; the spread of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets over the centuries; and Old Bulgarian literature, created by Bulgarian scholars and writers in the 9th–11th centuries.
The exhibition is located in the central lobby of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and will be on display from 18 to 28 May 2015.