National Education Museum - Korce

Tel: + 355 824 30 22

Visiting hours: 9.00-13; 15-18.00
Holiday: Monday
Address: L.12, Boulevard: Shen Gjergji, Kore.
From May to September, visiting hours are: 8.00-13.00; 16.00 19.00

The Frist School in Albanian language (called Msonjtorja) was opened on 7 march 1887 in the current
building of National Education Museum, a 150 year old building. It was opened by permission of Ottoman
Empire. N_Education_M1The building was the house of the patriot from Korca, Diamanti Terpo, who
donated it for first albanian school.
This museum shows the history of albanian writing, the numerous alphabets up to the present one,
decided in Manastiri Congress in 1908. It also displayed albanian book history starting from the first
primer of albanian language complied by Naum Panajot Bredhi. The museum building has eight exhibiting
rooms.

On the first floor, visitors will see

Besides the temporary exhibitions, the museum has a permanent

collection,

art/ photography/ film exhibitions

The Charity Art Exhibition

with a sublime goal to help children born with impaired hearing. All the donations will go for

ARsA is a group of volunteers who strive daily to change the fate of stray and abandoned animals.