The Onufri Museum in Berat has always rises interest of visitors, especially foreign ones, even during the first three months of the year, thanks to the artistic and heritage values.

Berat National Center of Museums announces that in the first three months of 2023, the Onufri Museum of Iconography was visited by 2894 domestic and foreign visitors, which turns out to be 154% higher than the same period of the previous year.

“Onufri” Iconography Museum, which bears the name of one of the masters of Albanian painting of the 16th century, was built in 1797 on the ruins of an older church the “Kala” /Castle/ neighborhood. It was the city’s cathedral, which stays as the most representative of post-Byzantine architecture of Berat.

The museum collection consists of 173 objects selected from a fund of more than 1,500 objects belonging to the funds of churches and monasteries of Albania.

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