The history of the Albanian people, but especially of Albanian national hero George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, has awakened the curiosity of 35 thousand local and foreign visitors during the January-June period of this year.

During the first half of 2023, there is a 60% increase in the number of visitors compared to the same period last year in the Kruja Museum.

Only during June, the museum was visited by 12 thousand local and foreign visitors, mainly from Europe such as Spaniards, Italians, Germans, etc. But this year an increase in the number of Asian visitors, from China, Japan and Indonesia, can be noticed. The most visitors are from Poland.

According to him, visitors show interest in the museum in general, the enterprise of Skanderbeg, the characteristic bazaar and the works of art in the museum.

The National Museum “Georg Kastrioti Skanderbeg” was inaugurated on November 1, 1982 in the Kruja castle. The museum complex is divided into several spaces, which are visited chronologically according to the events.

In this museum there are objects belonging to different historical periods, but in some pavilions the history of the Early Middle Ages, the Albanian Principalities, the Ottoman invasion and the fights of the Albanians to cope with the Ottoman conquest.

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