Abstract
On the 9th of July 2009, the National Art Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria opened its doors to welcome visitors to a temporary exhibition, entitled ‘Underground stores’. The exhibition, the first of its kind in the country, took the visitor on a journey back in time to the period of communism in Bulgaria. It seems to have provoked a sense of nostalgia in many of the older and middle-aged visitors, a phenomenon recently observed in other ex-communist countries. Using the exhibition as a starting point, this paper examines some of the reasons for the seemingly delayed reaction Bulgarian museums demonstrated in relation to interpreting and confronting this controversial period in European history. It also introduces little known details from Bulgarian museums' past and present operations.
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