TIRANA, Feb. 22 – A new working group has been set up to reshape the pavilion of communist genocide at the National Historic Museum of Tirana. The working group is composed of some of the country’s best museologists including representatives of the former Politically Persecuted Association and archive officials from the Interior Ministry.
The culture and Tourism Ministry has awarded an initial 50,000 dollar fund for the pavilion’s re-design.
The new pavilion confessing Albania’s 45 years of communism will be displayed in a 500 square meter area. Photos, objects used by political prisoners and torture methods will be featured in the pavilion along with documentaries.
The pavilion was first inaugurated in 1996 and comprises the events that took place between 1943 and 1992. It contains testimonies of the deputies who rebelled against the communist regime which came to power in 1944, the sentencing and execution of intellectuals in 1951, and other atrocities.
The collapse of the regime is documented through the students’ movement that bought to an end the dictatorship, paving the way to the establishment of the democracy with the first multi-party elections held in March 1991. The section ends with the list of the people who were sentenced and shot dead during the communist dictatorship.
Meanwhile, the ethnographic pavilion, also under restoration, features the traditional garments and costumes of the various Albanian regions (19th-20th centuries) such as Tirana, Zadrima, Korca, Gjirokastra, Kukes, Laberia, and 32 garments of the Arberesh community in Italy.
The photographic material is miscellaneous and displays different figures of Albanian and foreign history and culture wearing traditional Albanian costumes. Among them are late Mother Teresa, writers such as the Frash쳩 brothers, Faik Konica, heroes Shote and Azem Galica, the famous British traveler, artist and writer Edit Durham, Lord Byron, etc.
In this pavilion, handicraft objects are exhibited together with a collection of weapons.
Communist Genocide Pavilion Ready To Be Reshaped
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