The most unusual museums are to be found in Tirana: a huge bunker used by the communist government as shelter of last resort in a time of war has been turned into museum; a once infamous house covered with leaves was the one-time spy HQ from where hundreds of thousands of Albanians were persecuted during the dictatorship; it has been turned into a museum, the House of Leaves, and houses thousands of files and espionage devices; the National Museum, the largest in the country, hosts objects and stories from pre-historic times up until the period of communism, with photos, videos and stories from one of the longest-lasting and most repressive regime in Europe.
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If you are keen to know the turbulent history of the Albanians, this is the place to visit. The National History Museum is the most important museum in Albania and contains a well-documented history of the country. The museum is divided into eight pavilions: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Independence, ...
House of Leaves is one of the most unusual museums in Albania. It is considered to be the equivalent of the Stasi headquarters of the former East Germany. The leaves have a double meaning: things hidden in woods, but also the leave of books and files, on people. Those curious to see what was hidden in ...
To live means to leave traces. The famous novelist Ismail Kadare is one of the few Albanian writers who has left behind a legacy for many generations. Everyone, including tourists, should learn about the life of this personality during the communist regime. In 2019 his house in Tirana, where he lived ...
The National Archaeological Museum is situated in Mother Teresa Square. It was the first museum to open in Albania after WW2. Inaugurated in 1948 as the Archaeological and Ethnographic museum, the ethnographic section was later, in 1976, moved. Located in the same building as the Institute of Archaeology ...
BunkArt 1 Museum provides a great journey through a strange and obsessive mind of a dictator. A symbol of political paranoia during the Enver Hoxha rule, this is a ‘must see’ for all people visiting Tirana and who are interested in the history of the country. Difficult to get there by foot, ...
The Women's Museum is a story of Albanian women through well-known and unknown events. The woman in this museum travelsin time through objects, documents and photos towards the goal of the museum: to better discover the role of women in society, family, in the monologue with herself and the dialogue ...
Bunkart 2 is the latest museum opened in Tirana on 17 November, in the framework of the National Day of Tirana Liberation. This top-secret nuclear bunker now is a new museum in the very center of Tirana, behind the Public Order Ministry, with aim to show visitors how Communist-era police persecuted the ...
The Museum of the Bank of Albania was inaugurated on 30 October 2015, combining elements of a museum and didactics. It is situated within the headquarters of the central bank in the main square of the capital. Each of the two floors is conceived as an independent space from the other. The Museum of the ...
