The National Museum of History (Muzeu Historik Kombëtar) is a historical museum in Tirana, Albania.
It was opened on 28 October 1981 and is 27,000 square metres in size, while 18,000 square metres are available for expositions.
Above the entrance of the museum is a large mural mosaic titled "The Albanians that depicts purported ancient to modern figures from Albania's history".
The museum includes the following pavilions: the Pavilion of Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Independence, Iconography, National Liberation Antifascist War, Communist Terror, and Mother Teresa. The Pavilion of Antiquity is the most important and one of the richest with objects in the National Historical Museum, with 585 objects.
The displayed objects start with the Late Paleolithic, where prehistoric culture is proved lively and powerful in our lands, and ends with objects belonging to the Early Middle Ages (4th to 8th centuries).
The objects of the prehistoric settlement of Maliq represent the Neolithic flourishing since the middle of the fourth millennium until about 2600 BC.
MHK - National History Museum of Albania
Address: Sheshi Skënderbej, 7
Phone: +35542223977
Site:
http://www.mhk.gov.al/?lang=enLocation inserted by
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