Kosovo: National Ethnologic Museum in Pristina

We visited the Muzeu Etnologjik -- the National Ethnographic Museum - which is a part of the Museum of Kosovo.  We enjoyed a wonderful guided tour (in English)

 From the Kosovo Guide:

"The Ethnological Museum consists of several well preserved buildings that are from the 18th and 19th century. It tells the story of life in Kosovo from the 15th century through to the 20th century.
Originally the home of the local nobleman Emin Gjiku, the home was turned into a biology museum when the family was expelled from Kosovo in the 1950's. The Ethnological Museum was opened in 2006.
"The exhibition is built round four main themes that represent the circle of life: birth, life, death and intangible heritage. You can witness some folk art, the way of living, marriage, folk dressing, and death rituals and so on.
"You will be able to see the urban oda (saloon), beautiful folk dresses, folk instruments, Kosovo's rich heritage of filigree jewelry influenced by Sephardic Jews and practiced in Prizren and Gjakova, carpet work, locally produced weapons of the time and even religious objects dating back to the Illyrian ancestors"
See the  http://www.kosovoguide.com


The Museum explains on its facebook page:

"We invite you to visit this ethnological complex, a pearl of cultural heritage. It consists of a compound of four buildings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These buildings contain an extraordinarily interesting ethnological exhibition that tells the story of life in Kosovo in ethnological aspect from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries."

Here is the facebook page for more information:  https://www.facebook.com/Muzeuetnologjik/