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Sofia residents and the city’s guests will be able to come into touch with the world of art in a major museum complex at the very heart of the capital. Construction of the so-called Bulgarian Louvre has already kicked off. It will bring together under its roof archeology, medieval art, classicistic works, modern and contemporary art plus a few masterpieces of foreign artists. Financing for the project has come from the Regional Development Operational Programme 2007-2013 and is to the tune of 20 million leva (the equivalent of 10 million eoros). An official event gave the start to the project. It was honored by Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov, Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Liliyana Pavlova, the Director of the National Museum of History Bozhidar Dimitrov and Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova. Vezhdi Rashidov and Liliyana Pavlova carried out the sod-turning ceremony of the National Museum Complex. Cultural Minister Rashidov said that he would no longer call the project the Bulgarian Louvre and explained that his ministry had been looking for the best name of the new museum. Suggestions are now collected on the ministry’s website and a shortlist with five suggestions has already been made. One of them is Square 500 suggestive of the architecture of this part of town. Other ideas include Zograf, a Bulgarian word for artist or icon-painter, and VisArt an allusion of visual arts. The suggestion Serdica, Sofia’s name from the Antiquity, is strongly associated with the future archeological section of the museum.
Opening the project, Rashidov emotionally recalled that three years had passed from the day he decided that Bulgaria needed a national museum complex. „I am being a bit emotional and this is because I am convinced that this will be not only a Bulgarian but also a world museum”, the Cultural Minister said and thanked Regional Minister Pavlova for the financial support. Rashidov turned to Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova saying that she should be the lady who in 2019 would welcome the world to Sofia as a European Capital of Culture. In turn Fandakova recalled that two new museums had opened in Sofia last year and that four new ones would open by end-2013. „I do not know of another period in the history of the city when six museums have opened”, Fandakova remarked. In her words, the project for the National Museum Complex is yet another step for the promotion of Sofia’s bid for European Capital of Culture 2019. What is more, at the sod-turning event Culture Minister Vezhdi Rashidov re-launched the idea for moving the National Museum of History on the premises of one of Sofia’s biggest department stores, TSUM, located in the historical center of the town. He believes that once this happens, the capital city could come under the aegis of UNESCO.
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| Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 |
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