Socialist Art Museum

Overview

The Museum of Socialist Art (also called the "Museum of Totalitarian Art") in Sofia is a branch of the National Art Gallery. It opened on September 19, 2011. This is the first museum institution in Bulgaria, designed to collect, preserve and present samples of Bulgarian art, created in the period 1944 - 1989, thematically related to the era of socialism.

The museum is located in a park with an area of ​​7,500 square meters and shelters over 70 artifacts. The museum complex consists of a park, an exhibition hall, and a presentation hall.

Statues of communist leaders such as Lenin, Stalin, Georgi Dimitrov, and others are on display in the museum park.

Works of proletarian painting and sculpture are exhibited in the hall. There are also temporary exhibitions on various topics that show the ideological forms of art. Archive and documentary films are shown in the presentation hall. There is a shop that sells souvenirs - authentic items from the socialist era and modern artifacts.

The museum is dedicated to keeping the memory of the past socialist time.

To the right of the entrance to the museum park, is the original red pentacle - a symbol of socialism and communism, which for many years towered over the headquarter of the Bulgarian communist party in downtown Sofia.