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For the National Art Gallery, see the Daut Pasha Hamam review in Ottoman Skopje.

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Bazaar Museum

On the first floor of a 15th-century inn, the small Bazaar Museum is an essential stop for insight into Skopje’s importance as a former trade town of importance. Read_on (No Comments)

City Museum

Located inside what’s left of the old train station and worth popping inside for this fact alone, Skopje’s decidedly dim and lacklustre City Museum rarely features little more than two small collections on two floors. Read_on (No Comments)

Contemporary Art Museum

Housed inside a large, Polish-designed box, the fabulous Contemporary Art Museum, like so many good things in Skopje, owes its existence to the 1963 earthquake. Read_on (No Comments)

Mother Teresa Museum

More of a shrine than a museum, the one-room memorial dedicated to Skopje-born Mother Teresa has photographs, paintings, a model of her birth house and a prayer corner. Read_on (No Comments)

National Museum

The large white building just below the Mustafa Pasha mosque houses the rambling and under-appreciated National Museum. The Read_on (No Comments)

Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum
Next to the zoo and evidently suffering from the same dire financial problems, Skopje’s drab little Natural History Museum features two floors of badly lit (if lit at all) glass-fronted cabinets full of the usual stuffed animals and fossils. Read_on (No Comments)