“Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg” museum in Kruja continues to attract a high number of local and foreign visitors even at the beginning of this year.

The director of the Kruja Historical and Ethnographic Museum, Mehdi Hafizi, says that  there wer 3324 visitors to visit “Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg” museum during January-February, where they learned about Albanian history and traditions.

According to him, the visitors are mainly Italians, Spaniards, Albanians from all over the country, as well as students from various schools in the country.

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

In this museum there are objects belonging to different historical periods. Some pavilions display the history of the Early Middle Ages, the Albanian Principalities, the Ottoman invasion and the struggles of the Albanians to cope with this invasion.

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