National Archaeological Museum, Tirana
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| Established | 1948 |
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| Location | Tirana, Albania |
The National Archaeological Museum is a national archaeological museum in Tirana, Albania and is also the first museum created after World War II in the country. It was opened in 1948 as Ethnographic-Archeological Museum.
History
This museum was opened on 1948 and today presents the research of archaeological discoveries in the territory of Albania
It is affiliated to the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of Albania. The museum houses exhibits from prehistoric and historic times up to Middle Ages. More than 2000 items are displayed and these items range from ancient jewellery, to Roman statues, to vast clay pots covered in shellfish that have been found during the many archaeological field trips the museum is involved in. It is also responsible for conducting many archaeological expeditions in the country and is the parent institution of several other museums in the country including the Durrës Archaeological Museum.
It has a library of some 7200 volumes.[1]
The collection
The 2000 objects exhibited by the museum belong to the following ages:
- Stone Age: 100.000 to 2000 BC
- Bronze Age and Iron Age: 2000 to 800 BC
- Beginings of the Illyrian Civilisation: ca. 1000 BC
- Illyrian Antiquity: 1000 BC to 100 AD.
- Roman and Byzantine Civiliztaion in Albania: 100 to 600 AD
- Albania in the Middle Ages and the Ottoman rule in Albania: from 600 until the Independence on 1912
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References
- ↑ Salzman, Michael (2003). The World of Learning 2004 (54 ed.). Europa Publications, Routledge. p. 44. ISBN 1-85743-182-0.
Coordinates: 41°19′06″N 19°49′19″E / 41.31833°N 19.82194°E