TIRANA, June 30 / ATA /- Durrës Archaeological Museum, the largest archaeological museum as well as an important object of the cultural heritage in the country, has been visited by 5386 local and foreign tourists during the period January-June of this year, the Regional Directorate of National Culture, Durrës announced.
After restoration and public opening, in 2015, the museum is attracting more and more the attention of foreign tourists, where in the first 6 months of the year there have been 2414 foreign visitors and 936 local visitors.
The Regional Directorate of National Cultural Center, Durrës said for Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA) that, “the foreign tourists were from different countries like USA, Germany, England, Poland, Sweden, France, Italy, China.”
The Durrës Archaeological Museum was opened in 1951, to showcase and preserve artifacts found in the nearby ancient site of Dyrrhachium. The museum can be found near the beach, on Rruga Taulantia. The Durrës Archaeological Museum boasts an extensive collection from the Ancient Greek, Hellenistic and Roman periods, such as Roman funeral steles and stone sarcophagi, mosaics, and a notable collection of miniature busts of Venus, from the time when Durrës was a center of worship of the goddess. //a.i/
