TIRANA, April 8 /ATA/ The “Onufri” museum in Berat has awakened the interest of visitors, especially foreign ones, even during the first three months of the year, due to its artistic and heritage values.
The National Center of Museums, Berat has announced that, “in the first three months of 2023, the Onufri Museum of Iconography was visited by 2894 domestic and foreign visitors, which turns out to be higher than the same period of the previous year that recorded 1876 visitors, an increase of about 154%.”
The “Onufri” Iconographic Museum, which is named after of one of the masters of Albanian painting in the 16th century, sits on the ruins of a church rebuilt in 1797 in the “Kala” (Castle) neighborhood, which was the city’s cathedral, also the most representative monument of post-Byzantine architecture in the city of Berat.
The museum collection consists of 173 artefacts selected from a fund of more than 1,500 objects belonging to the funds of churches and monasteries of Albania.
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