 The museum , a branch of the national art gallery , has a display of socialist regime of 45 years ( 1944 @-@ 89 ) period of art symbols and other artifacts and archives with statues in the park . The museum covers an area of 7 @,@ 500 square metres ( 81 @,@ 000 sq ft ) in the Sofia suburb known as " Red Star " . It consists of three parts : a park in which 77 statues or sculptures drawn from the communist period , including a statue of Vladimir Lenin , have been erected ; an exhibition hall with 60 paintings and 25 easel paintings representations ; and a media or video hall in which propaganda films and newsreels related to the communist period are screened . There is also a souvenir kiosk where communist period memorabilia are sold . The museum 's collection covers the period from 1944 to 1989 , from the introduction of communism to Bulgaria to the end of the totalitarian regime . At the entrance of the museum stands a large " five @-@ pointed star " which had earlier adorned the Party House in Sofia from 1954 to 1984 . The statue park , which is said to be the " most representative part of the museum " , features statues , busts , and figures of popular communist leaders and activists , of poets , sculptures of Red army soldiers , agricultural and industrial workers , and so forth . 
