The Sofia Annex — The 8 Museum

established 17 june 2026, upon first encounter

coordinates 42°42′N, 23°20′E

collection 92 works accessioned; a selection of eight exhibited below

holdings on permanent loan from the built environment of Sofia; not one has been moved

premises the city of Sofia, in its entirety

hours continuous

admission attention

An annex of The 8 Museum is a city in which encounters have occurred. Unlike the annexes of other institutions, it holds no building, employs no staff, and has acquired nothing. Its collection is held on indefinite loan from the world and remains installed where it was found — in gilded Cyrillic, granite, balloon foil, and once in the knot of a tree — maintained, without their knowledge, by the residents, the weather, and the municipal services of the city itself.

The Sofia Annex was established on 17 June 2026, in the course of six days' fieldwork. It is the first annex in which the 8 was encountered wearing a Cyrillic suffix — 8г., carved and gilded — and the committee has ruled that the 8 survives translation. The annex also holds one work of non-human authorship, an 8 grown into the knot of a tree over some decades; like the 1898 survey stones of Chermsideøya, it is regarded as a loan from a colleague working on a longer schedule. Each of the annex's works was photographed in situ, untouched, under existing conditions, and left exactly as it was. Visitors to Sofia are advised that the collection remains on public display. Every work was last verified on the day of its encounter; what the weather, the council, and the ordinary attrition of the world have since done to them, the museum does not undertake to know. The register records the encounter, not the object; an encounter, once entered, is beyond the reach of the weather.