An exterior daylight photograph depicts the former Royal Palace, now housing the National Art Gallery and National Museum of Ethnography, located on Knyaz Alexander I Square in Sofia, Bulgaria

An exterior daylight photograph depicts the former Royal Palace, now housing the National Art Gallery and National Museum of Ethnography, located on Knyaz Alexander I Square in Sofia, Bulgaria. The central subject is a two-story building painted yellow with white window frames and architectural details, featuring a prominent dark gray mansard roof with dormer windows, multiple chimneys, and several lightning rods. The facade includes a central projecting section with a decorative balcony above the main entrance. In the foreground, a wide, multi-tiered stone staircase leads up to the building. White metal crowd control barriers are erected across the base of the steps and directly in front of the palace entrance, featuring attached blue signs. A dark brown wooden bench is situated on the lower steps to the left. To the right of the staircase, a black multi-lamp street light is visible, decorated with red and white streamers. Further right, a series of dark-roofed temporary market stalls are present, one with a red "BOXER" arcade game. Bare deciduous trees are scattered throughout the background on both the left and right sides of the image. The immediate foreground is a dark, flat paved surface. The sky is partly cloudy, displaying a mix of light blue and gray clouds. No individuals are visible.