Panorama, panorama museum in Pleven, Bulgaria

Pleven Panorama is a museum in Skobelev Park whose building rests on four bayonet-shaped supports, three rings standing for the three assaults on Pleven and a fourth for the siege. Inside, a 115×15-metre canvas with a 12-metre foreground places the viewer in the third battle of 11 September 1877, among Russian attackers, Turkish cavalry and burning houses.

The panorama commemorates the five-month Siege of Plevna (20 July–10 December 1877), focusing on the third battle of 31 August–11 September, when General Mikhail Skobelev's Russians took two redoubts and a Romanian division captured Grivitsa. It was unveiled on 10 December 1977, the centenary of Osman Pasha's surrender to Colonel Mihail Cerchez. The monument is one of nearly 200 built by Pleven's people for the roughly 35,000 lives lost.

The panorama was conceived by Moscow artist Nikolay Ovetchkin as a counterpart to the Borodin Panorama in Belgorod, Russia, and painted by eleven Russian and two Bulgarian artists. Its four halls run from an introductory room of six canvases to the main canvas of 115 by 15 metres with a 12-metre foreground, placing the viewer inside the third battle of 11 September 1877.

The museum is open all year, with a midday closure: 9:00–12:00 and 12:30–17:00 from 1 October to 30 April, and 9:00–12:00 and 12:30–18:00 from 1 May to 30 September. The last group enters at 16:30 in winter and 17:30 in summer. Lifts take visitors to two viewing platforms on the roof, overlooking Dead Valley, the Kovanlak and Issa Aga redoubts, the Skobelev Park ossuary and the Radishevo and Grivitsa heights.

The four rings carried by the bayonet-shaped supports mark the three assaults on Pleven, while the fourth is a decorative frieze standing for the siege itself. The building was designed by architects Ivo Petrov and Plamena Tsacheva with a team of 14, and the painting was led by Nikolay Ovetchkin of Moscow's M. Grekov military studio.