Things to do in Tirana, Tirana County: The Best Museums

For all you art lovers, you will find at our Art Gallery "E.RIRA" works of contemporary artists, who adopts various techniques and genres of figurative art, such as: sculpture, ceramics, paintings, drawings, sketches and mixed techniques.

A contemporary art space located in the hart of Tirana. Gallery 70 has a roster of emerging and established artists , focusing on art created after 70ies. The artworks range from painting, sculpture, works on paper, installation to photography. The gallery build personal and group exhibitions as well as site specific installation.

ZETA Center for Contemporary Art is a non-profit exhibition space founded in 2007. With its 150 square-meter area on the second floor of a mixed residential and commercial building at Abdyl Frashëri Street in downtown Tirana, ZETA functions as an autonomous cultural venue for contemporary visual arts, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and educational programs.

Ironbrush is a cultural center located in one of the best areas of Tirana. Musicians, instrumentalists, painters, photographers, collectors and anyone related to figurative art not only, have been and will be part of this place. Inner Ironbrush you will also find a tattoo studio. On the first floor you can find the Ironbrush Pub. You can alsow find a mini-gallery called "Scissors Art Gallery"

House Studio Kadare is a place where you can get an idea of Kadare's work. It is a place where you can encounter the writer’s work and recognize its infinite ramifications in the times, in literature, and in his readers.

Gallery 43 is the only one in Tirana with authentic artworks from the famous albanian artist Rakip Shabani. The gallery has 2 floors with 94 unique paintings. You can visit it for free just to take a glimpse of the Albanian history, culture and nature. The paintings represent different lifestyles of the Albanian culture and not only. The artworks timeline varies from 1969 to January 2020.

After the inaguration, in June 1978 by the dictator Enver Hoxha, opened to the public the anti-nuclear bunker built by the communist government. A 5 floor palace underground, with 106 rooms and an assembly hall, now turned into an historical and art center called "BUNK'ART". The passageways, the areas provided for the meetings of the General Staff of the Army in case of war, the rooms where was thought would sleep the communist exdictator Enver Hoxha and the former Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu in case of a nuclear attack, the gigantic hall dedicated to the meetings of the political Bureau which contains also an albanian tipical Buffe are transformed into a video museum exhibition and into art. Starting from April 2016, BUNK'ART is now made permanent, turning into a unique attraction site for tourists in the region, showing the albanian life during the 45 years of communism.

Bunk'art 2 reconstructs the history of the Albanian Ministry of Internal Affairs from 1912 to 1991 and reveals the secrets of “Sigurimi”, the political police that was the harsh persecution weapon used by the regime of Enver Hoxha. Bunk'art 2 is the first major video museum exhibition dedicated to the victims of communist terror.