{"id":663,"date":"2016-09-25T19:44:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T19:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shtarkelov.info\/?p=663"},"modified":"2016-12-09T20:19:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:19:08","slug":"collection-mfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shtarkelov.info\/en\/collection-mfa\/","title":{"rendered":"The art collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The art collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs contains about 3 000 works – mostly paintings, prints and drawings by famous Bulgarian classic and contemporary artists, and it is one of the richest collections of Bulgarian art.<\/div>\n
It \u00a0is 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 indicators of identity, and administrative lobbies and lounges a form of museum space. This means of publicly representing the institution continues to this day.<\/div>\n
When it was set up in 2005, the State Institute for Culture was dedicated to the care of works from the art collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/div>\n
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