The Iconographic Museum “Onufri” in Berati during the month of January recorded a high number of visitors, especially foreign ones.

The director of the National Center of Museums in Berat, Agron Polovina, explains that “the first month of 2023, January, showed that we will have a good year ahead. This is proven by the numbers of visitors to the Onufri Iconography Museum, which are significantly higher than in previous years. 

According to him, the income from the sale of tickets for January 2023 is still higher, 259% compared to January 2022 and 367% compared to January 2019.

The “Onufri” Iconographic Museum, which bears the name of one of the masters of Albanian painting of the 16th century, was built on the ruins of a church rebuilt in 1797 in the “Kala” neighborhood, which was the city’s cathedral, the most representative of post-Byzantine architecture in the city of Berati.

The museum collection consists of 200 objects selected from a fund of more than 1,500 objects that belong to the funds of the churches and monasteries of Berat and Myzeqe.

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