The Marubi National Museum of Photography

The Marubi National Museum of Photography

The Marubi National Museum of Photography is the first museum of photography in Albania and has one of the richest holdings in the Balkan region with an archive of over 500,000 negatives covering a period from 1865 – when Pietro Marubi, an Italian from Piacenza, founded his photographic studio – to the late twentieth century.
During the communist period, when all private activities were prohibited, the last of the dynasty, Gege Marubi, donated the family archive to the state. Other photographers from the city ateliers did the same. In 1970 the Marubi Phototeque was founded as a part of the city museum under the auspices of the Municipality of Shkodër. In 2003 the Phototeque passed to the administration of the Albanian Ministry of Culture.

The Marubi National Museum of Photography was inaugurated on 9 May 2016, with the Phototeque collection as its core. The new museum, one of Albania’s greatest cultural resources, documents over a century of the country’s history, “bringing to light” important moments, people, and events and serving as an important emblem of Albanian culture.

About the educational department and intergenerational programmes

We are building intergenerational programmes that will bring together old and young to create a memory of the past and keep it alive in the present. For this to happen, proper educational programmes are being set up as a primary resource, including workshops with children, high schools, and university students engaged in the digitisation and cataloguing process, training programmes for museum guides, and reception and activities assistance – all carried out in partnership with public and private institutions.

Website:
www.marubi.gov.al