ART COLLECTION
The Art Works
The art collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs contains over 2 000 works - mostly paintings, prints and drawings by famous Bulgarian classic and contemporary artists, and it is one of the richest collections of Bulgarian art. It is to be found in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building at 2 Alexander Zhendov Street in Sofia and at Bulgarian missions around the world. Begun in the early 1960s in order to respond to the display needs of diplomacy, with art works becoming...
The Sculpture Park
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has an outdoor sculpture exhibition of nearly 100 works. The park area around the ministry's Sofia headquarters features one of the most iconic Bulgarian collections of monumental and park sculpture as well as authentic archaeological monuments (architectural details, fragments of sarcophagi and headstones), representing the sculptural heritage of Bulgarian lands from antiquity to today.
The contemporary works in the exhibition include several periods,...