TIRANA, February 5 /ATA/ The museums of the Berat Museum Center, the Onufri Iconographic Museum and the Ethnographic Museum continue to be highly on demand after destinations by local and foreign tourists and visitors.
The National Center of Museums in Berat said that, “Early this year, the Onufri Museum of Iconography and the Ethnographic Museum are still the selected destinations of local and foreign visitors coming to Berat, especially on weekends. Their number is increasing and compared to the same period last year there are 133% more visitors.”
“Even the revenues turn out to be 120% more than in the same period last year. These figures show that we are gradually returning to normalcy”, said the National Center of Museums in Berat.
The Ethnographic Museum was established in 1979 in a house with characteristic Berat architecture. It is a two-storey apartment with a loggia on one side. The ground floor is uninhabited. The connection to the second floor is made with stone stairs.
The Iconographic Museum “Onufri”, named after one of the masters of Albanian painting of the XVI century, was built on the ruins of a church rebuilt in 1797 in “Kala” neighborhood, which was the cathedral of the city, the most monumental representative of post-Byzantine architecture in the city of Berat. The museum collection consists of 173 objects selected from a fund of more than 1,500 objects belonging to the funds of churches and monasteries of Albania./k.s/j.p/p.s./
