National Gallery of Arts

The National Art Gallery is located in Tirana on the Boulevard “Deshmoret e Kombit”. It was opened in 1946 with an area of about 5300 m2. There are several exhibition halls such as Renaissance Art, Byzantine Art, Graf Hall and works done after the 50’s. In the Art Gallery are preserved about 4100 artworks of Albanian and foreign authors, which include a period the time since the 13th century continues until today. There is also the first Albanian bust, which is the bust of Skanderbeg, made in 1908 by Murat Toptani. Since 1999, a gallery library has been opened to the public, where albums, magazines, critics and various literature on the arts can be used.

The National Gallery of Arts is the most important institution of visual arts in our country. Some of the most important annual exhibitions that are organized are the International Art Photography Competition “Marubi” and the International Onufri Visual Arts Competition. Every two years is organized the “Biennale of Tirana”, one of the biggest manifestations of contemporary art at the international level. Also in the National Gallery of Arts, it is promoted artists, associations or different artistic groups from the country and the world. On the first and second floors are exposed works from the national fund, divided according to historical periods or based on artistic concepts aimed at re-evaluating the values that this institution carries out, to present it to the public in a qualitative way. Today, around 4000 works are preserved at the National Gallery of Arts.

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