Looted in 1997, the city's art museum has seen a comeback and now hosts a varied collection. Besides the changing shows, there's a permanent exhibition of works by Albania’s earliest painters starting in the 1800s, most of it thoroughly plagiarized since the 1990s by hundreds of living painters. The floors above contain realist socialist works depicting heroic partisans, Albania’s industrial might and factory workers, produced from 1944 to 1990 during Hoxha’s dictatorship when even the size of canvas and subject matter were dictated. The top floor is devoted to contemporary modern art by artists who are at last free to give the stroke of a brush their own expression. The gallery is surrounded by a lovely park, and as a special bonus at the rear of the building you'll find some still-defiant Communist-era partizan statues clenching their fists at the sky, as well as huge statues of Lenin and Stalin.

Admission 200 lek.