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An imposing gallery on the northeastern edge of Ploshtad Aleksandar Nevski houses the National Gallery of Foreign Art (daily except Tues 11am-6pm; ; US$1), an international art collection largely based on the donations of rich Bulgarians living abroad (and the occasional foreigner - Robert Maxwell was one early benefactor). The ground floor contains a sizeable collection of Indian miniatures, manuscripts and sculpture. Next door, a series of nineeenth-century Burmese wall hangings overlook a crowd of wooden Buddhas, including one gilt example sitting cross-legged on the backs of three elephants. Upstairs, second-division French artists take up a lot of space, although there are a couple of Delacroix sketches, a small Picasso etching ( The Visions of Count d'Orgas from 1966), and a mesmerizing Lucifer by turn-of-the-century German symbolist Franz von Stuck. In the basement (not always open), Thracian grave stones from an ancient necropolis excavated nearby surround a reconstructed mortuary chapel dating from late Roman times.
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