Angjelina Hamza
Albanological Institute
Department of Ethnology
CULTURAL VALUES AND PRISTINA Ethnological Museum
Summarize: Through this paper will address the Ethnological Museum and its cultural values. Except this it will treat the history of this museum, the cultural activities that are organized at the museum starting from different exhibitions realized here as well as other cultural activities.
Keywords: museum, ethnography, culture, material and spiritual.
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ESTABLISHMENT of cultural institutions in Kosovo started after World War II, namely in 1945. In this context, the establishment of museums did not make any exceptions. Only after 1945, they began to make efforts to open the museum to see as important cultural institution.
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This heritage people retain and bears with generations and continuity of time. The biggest interest of tourists when they are in a foreign country is to visit the museums of the country to get acquainted with the culture and tradition that characterizes that nation. So the main role of the museum is the service and communication with its visitors. Museums are usually built for the introduction of value to citizens and their function is to remember the past and present. Therefore, the information about these institutions will be reflected with an overview of the establishment of museums. Museums are, cultural and educational institutions, which collect, preserve and present the case of items of historical, scientific, cultural artistic values. Its "Language" is fundamentally based on material evidence, objects of archeological findings from the ethnography of the whole material culture, relics of personalities of other prominent figures, original artwork, as well as written documents, various files, graphics, maps and other enhancement material. A museum is a place where are stored most valuable works of a nation. We can say that the museum is the historical memory of a country. According to Pierre Norra, the museum "is through memory that seeks to reconcile with our past, with the world we have lost "and traces mysterious secrecy of our identity and memory in a sense that makes the present, present to themselves and …show more content…
Inside this museum, we find a large collection of artifacts, ranging from different categories that have to do with the history of Kosovo. Within this complex, we also have the professional laboratory that serves to restore damaged artifacts. At first, the museum had a small and modest collection of ethnography, then slowly began a systematic collection of exhibits on the ground. In The Ethnology Sector for 50 years of operation, although several thousand exhibits were collected (jewelry, textiles, metal, wood, pottery, etc.), from different regions of Kosovo, research up to that time have been partial. Provinces and Albanian villages could not be exploring, as it requires the science of ethnology and consequently the collection of materials was superficial. However, as we have mentioned and in the title of this paper, Pristina has not only a national museum but it has an another museum. This is the Ethnological Museum, which is also known as Emin Xhiku’s complex. Ethnological Museum is part of the cultural heritage of Kosovo and is a cultural monument protected by the state. In the courtyard of the building you can see old houses, among which an item of the 18th and 19th century, one of the museum 's most important Albanian life cycles where is there jealously guarded which are: birth ritual, the rite of death, life and cultural traditions. Through this house
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