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National Gallery of Arts

Galeria Kombetare e Arteve

Tracing the relatively brief history of Albanian painting from the early 19th century to the present day, this beautiful space also has temporary exhibitions. The interesting collection includes 19th-century paintings depicting scenes from daily Albanian life and others with a far more political dimension including some truly fabulous examples of Albanian socialist realism. The ground-floor part of the gallery is given over to temporary exhibitions of a far more modern and challenging kind.

Address: Bulevardi Deshmoret e Kombit
Hours: Closed for renovation
Price: 200 lek
Website: gka.al (opens in a new tab)

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