Albanian costumes in Genoa exhibition

GENOA, Nov. 8 – An exhibition featuring Albanian traditional folk costumes opened last week in Italy’s Genoa, Italian media reported.
The exhibition called “Albania: luxury and shine” is displaying Albanian costumes and accessories worn by Albanian men and women during the 18th and 19th centuries but also costumes from other Balkan countries such as Turkey, Greece, Montenegro and Bulgaria
Some 22 pictures from the famous early 20th century Marubi collection have also been put on display in the exhibition which organizers say will run until March 13, 2011 at the
Musei di Strada Nuova in Genoa.
Albania has a rich tradition of dances with a great variety of choreography and costumes.
The ethnographic pavilion at the National Historical Museum in Tirana, currently under reconstruction, features traditional costumes and garments of the various Albanian regions (19th to 20th centuries) from the regions of Tirana, Shkodra, Kukes, Korca, Gjirokastra and Vlora as well as 32 costumes of the Arberesh community in southern Italy.
Albania’s State Committee on Museums is waiting for the final design project on the reconstruction of the ethnographic pavilion at the National Museum History in Tirana.
Funded by the Spanish Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund, the project is being implemented jointly by UNESCO and UNDP, in close partnership with the Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.