Tower Museum of Petko Ogoyski

Petko Ogoyski - one of the few living artists who survived socialist prisons and labor camps, was an important figure in the Bulgarian cultural opposition against the communist regime. As a member of the Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union-Nikola Petkov (BZNS-Nikola Petkov) and poet/writer, Ogoyski was imprisoned twice (1950-1953 and 1962-1963) by the socialist state for writing “hostile” poems, texts and aphorisms and for “conspiracy”.
The Tower-Museum was established as a private initiative of the family Petko and Yagoda Ogoyski. The exhibition is partly a national and local ethnographic one, including household appliances, costumes, and weapons from the 19th and 20th centuries. At the same time, this was a way to circumvent the censorship of the communist regime. Among the ethnographic materials, Petko Ogoyski kept and preserved evidence from the periods of his imprisonment in six prisons and two forced labour camps; as also notes, books and poems written by him during and after the discharge from prison. The materials of the Tower Museum have been collected by Petko Ogoyski since his first imprisonment in 1950.
The collection of Petko Ogoyski documents the repressions of the socialist state over dissidents and is a valuable source of the forms of asserting political principles and moral positions by intellectuals.

佩特科·奥戈伊斯基，系少数幸存于社会主义监狱与劳动营的现世艺术家之一，其为保加利亚文化反对共产主义政权的杰出人物。身为保加利亚农民人民联盟-尼古拉·彼得科夫（BZNS-尼古拉·彼得科夫）成员及诗人/作家，奥戈伊斯基因撰写被视为‘敌对’的诗篇、文本与格言以及‘阴谋’活动，两次被社会主义国家监禁（1950-1953年及1962-1963年）。
塔楼-博物馆由佩特科·奥戈伊斯基及其妻子雅戈达·奥戈伊斯基私人发起成立。该展览部分为国家级与地方级民族志展览，展品包括19世纪与20世纪的家居用品、服饰与武器。此举亦为规避共产主义政权的审查制度。在民族志材料中，佩特科·奥戈伊斯基保存并保留了他在六所监狱及两个强制劳动营中的监禁时期证据，以及他在出狱后所写笔记、书籍与诗作。自1950年首次被监禁起，佩特科·奥戈伊斯基便开始收集塔楼博物馆的藏品。
佩特科·奥戈伊斯基的藏品记录了社会主义国家对于异见者的镇压，并成为知识分子主张政治原则与道德立场形式的有价值资料。