TIRANA, January 11/ATA/ During an early year analysis of achievements and planning, it came out that the “Marubi” Museum registered 15,644 visitors for 2022, or 126% more than 2021.
Meanwhile, compared to 2019 (before COVID-19), 2022 recorded a 12% increase in paying visitors and a 30% increase in ticket revenue. All this, according to the “Marubi”, thanks to an intensive program of exhibitions, talks, workshops and other activities.
During 2022, there were opened 5 temporary exhibitions in the “Marubi”. A special event was the donation of the photographic collection of the spouses Safet and Gjylzade Dokle consisting of 19,548 negatives, 31 albums inside which there are 7,995 printed photographs in the 6×9 cm format and 33 working objects of the photographic laboratory. This photo collection is the largest donated to “Marubi” after the 90s.
“Marubi Ese” was an innovation of this year, an online platform dedicated to scientific research in the field of art history and photography. The major commitment of this museum was the complete digitization of the records and documents of the archive, of 16,883 pages, a process that began in 2014 and was completed thanks to the summer internship program with students of the Austrian “Peter Mahringer” school.
As for the year 2023, the Marubi Museum anticipates realizing 4 temporary exhibitions, 2 traveling exhibitions, 8 professional workshops, 2 restorations of archive objects and many other projects. /j.p/p.s./
