Picture labels in Bulgaria
November 2 2012
Picture: Tim Williams
Reader Tim Williams has been to Bulgaria, and sends this example of a label from the Gallery of Foreign Art in Sofia. It also seems the gallery has been relying on Google Translate for other labels.
Tim suggests that only the intrepid should visit Bulgaria for its art:
Their museums and galleries are quite bizarre. The gallery of foreign art in Sofia has the most eclectic collection I've ever seen, 80% of which is of really poor quality - when they need a Goya they display a page from the Gazette des Beaux Arts, or a Dali a Divine Comedy print (which you can buy for about £40), some paintings are almost falling off the wall, and in some spots you feel you might go through the floor at any given moment. The old masters were few and far between...
Update - a reader writes:
Three cheers that they at least tried to give text in English! How many museums still do not use anything but the language of their own country?
