Museum of Socialist art in Sofia, Bulgaria. Walkthrough
Today we are visiting a museum of Socialist art, located in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Soviet era ended in 1990 in many former Eastern-bloc countries, including Bulgaria. But there are still many Soviet-era monuments that can be found across Eastern Europe. One of such collections is a Museum of Socialist Art.
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Bulgaria: Museum of socialist art, Sofia
38th episode of 'Going East'. I visited the museum of socialist art in Sofia, where you can see the statues of Lenin and other communist dictators that were placed in different areas of the city during the communist dictatorship.
Socialist art museum opens in Bulgaria
(24 Aug 2011) SHOTLIST
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Sofia, Bulgaria - August 19, 2011
1. Close of Lenin statues in museum garden
2. Wide of Lenin statues
3. Close of socialist worker statues
4. Close of sign reading: (Bulgarian) Museum of Socialist Art
5. Close of statue face
6. Wide of statues in museum garden
7. Wide of man watering garden
8. Close of sculptor inspecting statue
9. Various of scupltor working on statue
10. Various of statue being lifted onto lorry
11. Various of red star statue being hoisted onto podium
12. Various of sculptor Ivan Nenkov working on Lenin statue
13. SOUNDBITE: (Bulgarian) Ivan Nenkov, scultpor
At this moment we are restoring some of the sculptures for Museum of Socialist Art, the most damaged are Georgi Dimitrov (first leader of the Bulgarian communist party) and Lenin.
14. Various of Lenin statue being repaired
15. Various of Lenin statue being winched into position
16. Close of military statue
17. Wide interior of museum staff preparing painting
18. Wide of paintings ready to be hung in gallery
19. Close of hands restoring painting
20. Close of painting
21. Mid of painting being treated
22. Wide of painting
23. Mid of museum worker inspecting painting
24. Mid silhouette of worker treating painting
25. Close of painting of farmer being restored
26. Mid of workers lifting painting showing soldier kissing woman
27. SOUNDBITE: (Bulgarian) Bisera Josifova, museum curator
Without getting too deep into politics or getting too emotional, we have to approach this period professionally. It''s not a standalone history and can''t be called totalitarian. I agree with my colleagues, including the Minister of Culture (Vezdy Rashidov) to accept the name of this museum�The Museum of Socialist Art.
28. Close of hands restoring painting
29. SOUNDBITE: (Bulgarian) Bisera Josifova, museum curator
There are other such museums in Europe, but they are with completely different personalities. In Hungary such a museum is called the Museum of Terror. I keep saying, that especially for Bulgaria totalitarian is not corresponding to the nature, subject and the concept of our museum. Totalitarian art is the art of the Third Reich, art during Mussolini''s dictatorship. Totalitarian art is the art of North Korea.
30. Mid of painting restoration
31. Wide of statue
LEADIN:
A new art museum opening in Sofia symbolizes Bulgaria''s long and painful farewell to its totalitarian past.
Hundreds of paintings and statues from the Communist era - which had been gathering dust in cellars - are now being restored for a place in their new home.
STORYLINE:
Giant statues of Soviet dictators Vladimir Lenin and local Bulgarian socialists Georgi Dimitrov and Todor Zhivkov.
These are some of the works being exhibited at a new museum to remind Bulgarians of their totalitarian past.
They were removed after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 - an event that triggered a political tsunami through Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe sweeping away landmark symbols of the communist regimes.
But while Budapest, Berlin and Prague opened similar expositions years ago, it took Bulgaria more than two decades to put together a collection of totalitarian art.
This giant red star being lifted into its new home outside the museum has deep symbolism.
This same star was removed from the roof of the Bulgarian communist party headquarters 21 years ago following collapse of the communist regime.
Since then the ornamental red star has gathered dust in the back of a public bath, where it was being stored.
Retrieved from cellars and warehouses, more than 100 artworks will be put on display in a museum, that''s due to open next month in Sofia''s Izgrev suburb.
Many of the statues need a lot of work to make them presentable.
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Sofia National Military History Museum Walkaround
The National Military History Museum (Национален военноисторически музей, Natsionalen voennoistoricheski muzey) is a museum dedicated to military history in Sofia, Bulgaria. A structure of the Ministry of Defence, it has existed under various names and subordinate to various institutions since 1 August 1914 (in practice since 4 July 1916). It disposes of 5,000 m² of indoor and 40,000 m² outdoor (of which 500 m² covered) exhibition area, a library and a computer centre.
The NMMH was established in 1916, two years after a military-historical commission, consisting of an archive, exhibition and library, was founded. By that time it was one of only three Bulgarian museums in existence. Its first complete exhibition was only unveiled in 1937. Its current structure and name date from 1968.
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Sofia Socialist Art Museum
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We plan an urban hike to the Socialist Art Museum, which is somewhere in a business district that's beyond our tourist map. We take a city street that follows a trolley line most of the way, a lot like walking through a NYC neighborhood. There are all kinds of shops and fast food joints along the way. At one spot, we find a little take-out window displaying all kinds of nuts and dried fruits. We order through the window, and pick out a few small bags of kiwi and strawberries, but we have an awful time trying to buy some walnuts. We point to the box with walnuts, the cashier woman points to the box next to it, No, that one, we point again. She points to the box above it, No, THAT one. She points to the box to the left, then to the right, then below, then two over, constantly skipping past the box full of walnuts. It's getting so ridiculous, we think she must be doing it on purpose, but finally, she hits the right spot, and we get our little bag of walnuts.
We follow our street to the edge of the city, where the sidewalk ends and we find ourselves on a dirt path along a woods next to a highway. We walk for another mile maybe, then get back to a sidewalk in a new neighborhood with lots of high rise office buildings that look like mostly banks. We head off the main street into a side street, looking for some kind of sign for the museum, which we estimate is somewhere near us. No one speaks much English, and even when Bob uses his Smartphone translator, we can't find anyone who's even heard of the Museum of Socialist Art. It's looking a bit grim for this outing, but then someone overhears us talking with a café owner, and gives us some general directions, sending us back to the main street for about another twenty minutes of walking, towards three big buildings. We continue as directed, and actually find the said buildings. Still no museum signage. We ask some people at another café, and one man leads us around the side of the building, and points across the street. We can see a gated entrance to a building with a plaque describing an Office of the Commission on Competition, or some such. Then we see in the back, a sculpture garden full of Lenin statues! We've found it! And indeed, the guard at the Commission gate waves us in towards the rear of the building, where a woman comes out of her station and waves us further along to the museum entry. Still no sign of signage.
The sculpture garden is interesting, with massive monuments and smaller works. Most are of Lenin or other Communist leader, others are honoring the common worker: a bricklayer in work clothes, joyful peasant women, stylized workmen.
Inside, there is a collection of propaganda posters, all bright Kodachrome colors. Stalin with schoolchildren, happy farmers, productive peasants, everyone happy, smiling, shiny. We stop to see a video of some propaganda films, showing grand pageants of schoolchildren with flowers, marching youths, everyone healthy and happy! One segment shows a squad of college youths gathered together for a great project, building a dam. For some reason, the communist college youths eschew machinery, building the dam with shovels, rakes and their bare hands. The women make a fire brigade line, passing rocks from one to the next, tossing them into a truck, doing this while wearing skirts and saddle shoes. The men are standing all along the hillside, picking out rocks that fall down the hill onto the guys picking just behind them. We're thinking, Oh, please god, someone get a backhoe!
Well, that was very interesting. We go home on the metro, very clean and modern. It's all new because as it was being built, diggers were continually finding Roman ruins, stopping everything. It took years to get the metro completed. We make one transfer and end up just a block from our apartment.
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Bulgaria opens communist-era art museum
Two decades after the Soviet collapse in Bulgaria -- when hunger strikers pushed for the removal of all propaganda statues, red stars and hammer-and-sickle symbols from squares and public buildings -- authorities resurrected them in the country's first ever Museum of Socialist Art.Duration: 01:32
[BULGARIA] Sofia: il museo dell'arte socialista
(IT) Alla scoperta del museo dell'arte socialista di Sofia, Bulgaria
(RU) Открытие музея социалистического искусства в Софии, Болгария
(EN) Discovering the museum of socialist art in Sofia, Bulgaria
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photography: Museum of Totalitarian (Soviet) Art in Sofia, Bulgaria
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Take the underground out of the city to G.M. Dimitrov (15 mins from centre) and then a 15 minute walk to the actual museum.
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Exploring SOFIA - Bulgaria's Classic Capital
Footage of the Military Museum and Socialist Art Museum.
There's plenty to see in this awesome city.
Sofia former Communist HQ buildings
A quick tour of where the Bulgarian communist-ruled the country from in Sofia. Also, a brief look at the effects WW2 had on this area of Sofia.
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