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National Art Gallery of Bulgaria description and photos - Bulgaria: Sofia. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The famous Museum of Fine Arts is located in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. The building in which the National Gallery is located, in the past - the royal palace, built in 1873 on the square named after Prince Alexander Battenberg.

The museum collection began in 1892 when the art department of the National Archaeological Museum was created. In 1948 the collection was recognized as an independent collection and after a few years it was decided to move the collected works to the former palace. The same building houses the National Ethnographic Museum dedicated to the culture of Bulgaria, the Bulgarian people.

The Gallery has a large collection of works of art, numbering more than 50 thousand different exhibits.

The second floor is dedicated to the fine arts of Bulgaria: there are more than 150 paintings by Bulgarian artists (from the Renaissance to the 1960s). Visitors can see the works of the brush of such masters as Zlatya Boyadzhiev, Vladimir Dimitrov, Zakhary Zograf, Vladimir Dimitrov-Maistoa, Goshka Datsov, Ivan Milev, Georgy Mashev.

On the third floor there are sculptures made of marble and bronze , terracotta and other materials. The works belong to sculptors Nikolov, Lazarov, Emmanilova and others.

The museum is especially proud of the outstanding collection of paintings from the Middle Ages. The gallery's crypt of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral has a rich exhibition of icon painting.

The gallery often hosts seminars and conferences, scientific meetings, concerts,

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