Albania´s National Museum

Taking up most of the north side of Skanderbeg Square, this 45-year-old museum with its huge, heroic-proletarian-Communist-style mural The Albanian People, is home to exhibits laying out the history of this land from antiquity through the Hoxha era (entitled "Communist Terror," plus a separate section devoted to Mother Teresa, who was Albanian though born in Kosovo; the museum is, however, closed for renovation until 2028, though the mural is still visible.

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

David Stanley

 

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