A museum for artefacts and artworks from Bulgaria’s period under communist rule. The place includes an exhibition for with paintings and sculptures, a video room for documentaries and a large park with 77 sculptures – mostly busts of prominent local and Soviet communists and statues of partisans, soldiers and workers in the authentic socialist realism style. The star of the exhibition is the symbol of communist rule in Bulgaria, namely the red five-pointed star that used to sit atop the communist party’s headquarters.

#soSofia tip: Sometimes they screen Bulgarian propaganda movies, ask about it.