TIRANA, June 27 /ATA/ Despite the hot weather of high temperatures, local and foreign tourists continue the daily visits to the museums of Kruja.
Director of the Historical and Ethnographic Museum of Kruja Mehdi Hafizi said today for ATA that, “In June alone, the museums of Kruja were visited by about 4 thousand local and foreign visitors”.
According to him, groups of local tourists, but also from different parts of the world are increasing day by day.
“Most of the visitors are from Ukraine, Israel, Serbia, while there are also visitors from different cities of Albania and Kosovo”, – said Hafizi.
The director also said that, “Since the beginning of the current year the number of visitors has had an increasing tendency from day to day. Thus, from January to June, these museums were visited by 13 thousand visitors “, 2.5 times more visitors than the same period last year”.
“Tourists have shown great interest in the culture and history of our people during their visit to the National Museum “Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu” and the Ethnographic Museum Kruja”, – he added.
Kruja has an all- year-round tourism, as it is favoured by the values it carries, but also by the location.
The “Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu” National Museum was inaugurated on November 1, 1982 in the castle of Kruja. This museum also has the character of a memorial that is treated as the Albanian tower of the North. The museum complex consists of several spaces, which are visited chronologically according to events. In this museum, there are objects that belong to different historical periods, but in some pavilions are treated the history of the early Middle Ages, the Albanian principalities, the Ottoman occupation and the battles of the Albanians to face this occupation.
The Ethnographic Museum of Kruja is located inside the castle of Kruja. This museum is set up in the house of the Toptani family, which is a building of 1764. The house is a cultural monument of category I. There is found a complete picture of the crafts practiced in Kruja and throughout Albania, as well as the way of life starting 300 years ago. Full 90% of the objects of this museum are original and 100% are functional. There, we find objects made of ceramic, wood, stone, iron, cotton, silk, wool, various embroideries exhibited with finesse. The age of these objects varies from 60-70 to 500 years old. The National Ethnographic Museum of Kruja was inaugurated on November 20, 1989./k.s/j.p/p.s./
