Plovdiv City Art Gallery

Overview

City Art Gallery - Plovdiv is an art gallery and museum in Plovdiv.

The history of the museum dates back to 1881, when the National Library and Museum in Plovdiv received 4 copies of the donor portraits from the Boyana Church (1259), made by the Tryavna painter Simeon Simeonov.

An art department was established at the museum in 1911. It became the basis of the future city gallery, originally called the State Art Gallery. Its official opening was on March 2, 1952.

the exhibition part of the Plovdiv Art Gallery is organized in exhibitions located in separate buildings:

Permanent exhibition "Bulgarian Fine Arts"
Permanent exhibition "Icons"
Permanent Exhibition "Mexican Art"
Permanent exhibition "Tsanko Lavrenov"
Permanent exhibition "Encho Pironkov"
Halls for temporary exhibitions
Permanent exhibition "Georgi Bozhilov - Slona"