"Place of testimony and memory" in Shkodra as a new cultural form of commemoration Cover Image

“Vendi i dëshmisë dhe kujtesës” në Shkodër si një formë e re kulturore e përkujtimit
"Place of testimony and memory" in Shkodra as a new cultural form of commemoration

Author(s): Ermela Broci
Subject(s): Cultural history, Museology & Heritage Studies, Culture and social structure , History of Communism, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Akademia e Studimeve Albanologjike – Instituti i Antropologjisë Kulturore dhe Studimit të Artit
Keywords: Museum; communism; memory; memory politics; Shkodra;

Summary/Abstract: The museum of memory contours a new shape of memory and a new form of the museums in Albania. Although, in Southern Europe, this kind of museum is widely spread, there are very few museums in Albania dedicated to the Communist period. This article focuses on why and how the societies agree with the past and the violence through the creation of the museum of memory as a new form of the memorial museum. It is investigated not only the features of communism through the present museum but thoroughly the overall practices of the process of memory within a museum. The Museum of Memory, in Shkodra, northern Albania, is taken as a case study. It is investigated its alterations through years starting as a cultural and education center during 1930-1946, later in 1946 - 1992 used as a political prison and then transformed into a memory museum (2014) to commemorate the crimes of communism and make them known to the public.

  • Issue Year: 2/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 145-174
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Albanian