Museum sights in Tirana
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National Museum of History
The National Museum of History has a wonderful socialist-realist Albania mosaic on its front. It still shows proud Albanians marching through history, only now the flag is missing its communist star. Inside are many of this ancient land's archaeological treasures, dating back as far as 100,000 BC. The extensive partisan-communist section has been retained (unfortunately without English translations), but it now ends with a large memorial exhibit to victims of Hoxha's regime.
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National History Museum
On the northwestern side of the square is the National History Museum. This, the largest museum in Albania, holds most of the country's archaeological treasures and a replica of Skanderbeg's massive sword (how he held it, rode his horse and fought at the same time is a mystery). The mosaic mural entitled Albania adorning the mus- eum's facade shows Albanians victorious and proud from Illyrian times through to WWII. There's a terrific exhibition of icons by Onufri, the renowned 16th-century master of colour. A sombre and controversial gallery devoted to the miseries of the communist regime was being updated at the time of research. Note there's no entry half an hour before…
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