Apparently, Sofia is opening a new museum of Socialist Art.

The expected opening has been covered by the <a href="http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=131521" target="_blank">Sofia News Agency/novinite</a> and by the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/bulgaria-opening-museum-socialist-art-124651273.html" target="_blank">Associated Press/yahoo</a>. However neither of these articles revealed the actual location of the museum. <em>Awesome</em>. Really, who needs to know that?!

But there has a big deal made about the red star which once graced Communist Party headquarters--it's in most of the photos illustrating the articles announcing the new museum. This star will be on display again. That's probably better than it's previous home. It was tucked away behind a fence and leaning up against the Sofia Bathhouse in downtown Sofia. I came across this find on <a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2011/04/23/sofia-and-easter-weekend/" target="_blank">a tour with Free Sofia Tour</a>. I would have never know what the broken glass star was from without them.

Luckily, I also stumbled across the "address" for the new museum in a <a href="http://www.sofiaecho.com/2011/08/26/1145333_national-art-gallery-in-sofia-to-close-for-four-months" target="_blank">Sofia Echo article</a> regarding the National Gallery in Sofia closing for 4 months for renovation. This is something the museum has been in desperate need of <a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2009/06/29/museum-kind-of-day/" target="_blank">since I've lived in Sofia</a> so I was very glad to read this.

The new museum? Well, apparently it's on Lachezar Stanchev Street in the Izgrev borough, near the Sofia office of the traffic police. But I have no idea where that is. Google wasn't really anymore helpful--the google arrow seems to be plopped down on an unnamed street close to the GM Dimitrov Metro stop.

Hum. This whole thing seems very, um, Bulgarian.  We're opening a museum but we're not going to give you the address or the hours. Don't get me wrong. I am going to check out the museum--that is once I know where it is and when I can visit.