Director of Kruja Historical and Ethnographic Museum Mehdi Hafizi told ATA today that, “During the first half of 2023, there is a 60% increase in the number of visitors compared to the same period last year”.

“During the month alone, the museum was visited by 12 thousand local and foreign visitors, mainly from Europe such as Spaniards, Italians, Germans, etc. But, during this year there is noticed an increase in the number of Asian visitors, from China, Japan and Indonesia,” said Hafizi, adding that the most visitors are from Poland.

According to him, visitors show interest in the museum in general, the figure of Skanderbeg, the characteristic bazaar and the works of art in the museum.

Regarding the works in the Ethnographic Museum, Hafizi said that, “They are moving at a fast pace and it is expected that its restoration will be completed in September”.

The National Museum “Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu” was inaugurated on November 1, 1982 in the Kruja castle. This museum also has the character of a memorial that is treated as the Albanian tower of the North. The museum complex is divided into several spaces, which are visited chronologically according to the events.

In this museum, there are dealt objects belonging to different historical periods, but in some pavilions the history of the Early Middle Ages, the Albanian Principalities, the Ottoman invasion and the struggles of the Albanians to cope with this invasion. /k.s/p.s./