
One of Kosovo's most important historical sites, the Albanian League of Prizren Museum is a complex of four buildings which has seen plenty of change of the past decades as the buildings were first relocated due to road construction in the 1960s, and destroyed by Serbian forces in 1999. Now completely reconstructed, the museum is important to ethnic Albanians, Bosniaks and Turks across the region as it is the place where patriots and intellectuals from Kosovo, Macedonia and the Sanxhak region gathered on June 10, 1878, to start the political, military and cultural struggle against the Ottoman Empire in order to appeal to the Berlin Congress for an autonomous Albanian state. The history, ethnology and art collections have period pieces relating to the 1878 meeting but many items are in poor condition, and there are no English captions. The curator will be happy to tell you about the collection, but you'll need a local to translate for you. Still, the traditional wooden house within the compound is quite beautiful, with a half open porch, an old door and many decorative wooden elements. Upstairs, look for the wonderful and very heavy
xhubleta traditional dress and the collection of patriotic paintings. At the entrance of the compound go to the first floor of the quaint and creaky library building to see evocative photos from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Admission €1/0,20.
Open:
Open 12:00-19:00. Closed Mon.
Address:
Rr. Sharri
Phone:
+377 44 19 14 27