The five-year-old Muzeu Gjethi (House of Leaves Museum, so called because of the climbing plant on its façade), is housed in the fairly nondescript villa that became the headquarters of Albania´s secret police from 1944 to 1991. With exhibits built around hundreds of artifacts, it tells the chilling story of the Enver Hoxha régime´s brutal and suffocating surveillance of its population.    

Read more in my post Our Eye-opening Exploration of Albania.


David Paul Appell