| The construction
of the building was launched at the beginning of the 1920s and it was
designed by prof. arch. Pomeriantsev - a lecturer at the Art Academy in
Saint Petersburg, Russia. The building had originally been planed to be
a Muslim religious school but it never came to perform such a function.
Its conversion to a museum took place in the 1980-1983 period, after the
design of arch. Elena Kondeva and the artistic arrangement of Velizar
Petrov. The singular architecture of the building of the museum and its
exposition halls, situated on three storeys, with a total exposition area
of 1300 square meters, are tastefully arranged with all the love and professionalism
needed. The exhibited cultural valuables, which have been collected for
more than half a century, are the fruit of the systematic, consistent
and continuous research work of the museum specialists. The messages from
the past tell us of bygone human civilizations, of the achievements of
the national artistic genius, and they inspire pride in us for "we have
also given something to the world". |