Petko Staynov House
The museum exposition, arranged in two rooms – halls 1 and 2, presents the composer’s course of life, his symphonic and choral creative work, his academic, musical and public activities, his journalistic work, his links with his native land, the national recognition he enjoyed and still enjoys.
On display are originals, facsimiles of originals and printed versions of the scores of most of Petko Staynov’s works, a large number of photographs and documents, reviews of his works in Bulgarian and foreign press, concert programs and posters, personal belongings, orders and medals.
Thanks to the novel computer technologies used, the exposition includes not only materials and documents from the Iskra History Museum, which manages the exposition, but also from the collections of the Central Scientific Archives and the Institute of Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Central State Archives, the Union of Bulgarian Composers, the State Musical Academy “Pancho Vladigerov”, the Sofia Philharmonic, as well as from various other collections.
