The National History Museum, located in the heart of Tirana, invites visitors, native or foreign, seeking to know more about the history of Albania, so that they will not hesitate to approach their doors.
“The high temperatures and the holiday season itself have nothing to do with the reduction of working hours in this institution. Rather, since the start of the tourist season on May 15 until its end on October 15, working hours at the National History Museum have increased. This means that no one wants to visit him without stepping out of the idea of days of rest or weekly breaks between the tours. The museum is open and active throughout the day from 09.00 am until 19.00 pm “, says the NHM announcement on Facebook’s social network.
According to the MHK, this new atmosphere, of course, is the new initiative, the one of online communication.
“Come to the museum to get acquainted with cultural treasures” is a program that invites anyone interested not only physically in the pavilions of this museum. Rather, the materials dealt with in this museum space come to anyone through onine communication.
“On his official website, but also with his social network, the National Historic Museum will be active in presenting enhanced information. This will not be conditioned by the activities that take place within this institution, but also those that have to do with historical issues, that is, what we have already learned to say: information on cultural heritage, “states MHK.
The variety of objects exhibited at the National History Museum aims to provide a comprehensive view of the material culture that was formed in the territory of Albania and invite the visitor to a historic itenerar, following the chronology of the main events that took place in our territory from the antiquity of To our day.
“Posts will receive more value and from relevant photos with which any qualified information will be associated. And this information escort will never go away. The National History Museum can not be seen simply as an attractive object in architecture, but for the greatness itself that carries the historical values of an ancient nation. In the heart of Tirana, he absorbs several thousand visitors a year. Meanwhile, it has been transformed into a workshop with students, students, professionals of the field, “reads the announcement of NHM.
National Historical Museum
The National History Museum was inaugurated on 28 October 1981 and is the largest museum institution in Albania. Built in the western part of Skanderbeg Square, the building of the MHK is one of the most important architectural works with a special role in the urban formation of the Albanian capital. The NHM has in its fund 3600 objects of Albanian cultural heritage, the most interesting part of which belong to the period from Paleolithic to late Antiquity (4th century BC); These are exhibited within the Pavilion of Arkelogy, which counts over 400 objects.
Among the most valuable collections of this section are those evidencing the archaic period and the Illyrian protourban period of Albanian culture. In the medieval ward, with more than 300 objects, documentation of the historical process of Illyrian-Albanian integrity is realized. The collection of medieval objects includes: the heraldic emblem of Albanian princes, columns of destroyed cathedrals, reliefs and icons of the greatest Albanian iconographers such as Onufri (sixteenth century), David Selenica and Kostandin Shpataraku of the century. XIII.
An incredibly precious object is the epitaph of Glavenica, worked with gold by an Albanian prince of the nineteenth century. XIV, Gjergj Arianiti. The collection of this period has been added and the new pavilion of icons has its own iconostasis from Elbasan and 50 icons taken from the collection of the Institute of Monuments of Culture collected from objects of worship over the last 50 years The entire territory of Albania.
Other pavilions contain documents and testimonies of other periods, eg. The Albanian national resistance, the independence and the establishment of the Albanian state, etc.
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