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Castle Museum Shkodër

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  • First floor (Area)

    Objects belonging to Antiquity and the Middle Ages are exhibited on the first floor. The Roman mosaic of the 4th century AD, discovered at the foot of the castle, is also exhibited there.

  • The iron age (Point)

    The ethnic territory of the Illyrians (1100-500 BC) Illyrian states (5th century BC until the Roman conquest)

  • Spears (Point)

    The top was silent. Helmet. Ceramic bowl. Ornamental. Iron blade tip - VII-V century BC. Iron knife with simple tun - Roman period Iron knife with conical tun - Hellenistic period - III-II century BC. Roman short sword

  • Illyrian kings (Point)

    Agroni, Teuta, Ghent - marble - Author Skënder Kraja 1996

  • Roman imperial coins (Point)

    Servius Sulpicius Galba (68-60 AD) Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Plus (138-161 AD) Annia Galeria Faustina Pia (141 AD) Lucius Septimus Severus Partinax Pius (193-221 AD) Flavius Valerius Constantinus Maximus (306-337 AD) Arcadius (394-408 AD) DenarJustinianus (527-566 AD)

  • Antiquity (Point)

    Coin of Athens (IV century BC) Apollonian drachma (IV century BC) Apollonian obole (III century BC) (Alexander the Great) (336-323 BC) Durrës drachma (III century BC) King Ilir Ghent (181 -168 BC)

  • The museum of castle... ... (Area)

    Status: Local museum, branch of Historic Museum of Shkodra In the most fortified part of Rozafa’s Castle is situated the Museum of the Castle. It is located in a medieval building of the 15th century known as the “Kapitaneria”. This building was residence of “Contcapiten” Venetian ruler of Shkodra. In ottoman period the same building was mentioned like “haremllek”, residence of female members of family of ottoman governor. This building have three floors and it’s covered by a massive arch in stone. The thickness of the walls is 2.5 m and the small windows have served like frenches. In the period 1985-1990 this building it was restored, almost in wooden parts inside and it’s transformed in museum equipped with archaeological findings of the Castle. Just in front of principal door, you can see a basorelief dedicated to the legend of wallnes. It’s a gypsum bas-relief of Skender Kraja, author from Shkodra. In first floor are exposed objects from Antiquity and Middle Age. There is exposed also a roman mosaic of 3rd or 4th century AD finded on the foot of the Castle’s hill. In the second floor there are objects from ottoman period (from 1479) till 1914. In the centre of the second floor, you can see also the “plane of the Castle”, which represents the Castle and the territory around it in 18th century, a period in which Shkodra was centre of the Paschalek of Bushatllinj. Throught museal objects, art works and maps, it’s possible to have an impression of the Castle in time and space.

  • Second floor (Area)

    The second floor has objects from the period from the Ottoman occupation (1479) to 1914. On the second floor is also the "plan of the castle", which shows the castle and the surrounding territory, as it was in the 18th century, when Shkodra was the center of the pashall of Bushatlli.

  • Battle ax (Point)

    Battle ax - 14th-15th century Sword 15th-15th century Spear - 15th-17th century

  • National renaissance (Point)

    National Renaissance - Independence (1878-1914) Shkodra in an effort to protect the national identity and create the Albanian state. Pashko Vasa / Daut Boriçi / Hodo Sokoli / Filip Çela Headquarters of the Albanian League of Prizren Shkodër. / Dede Gjon Luli / Mjeda, Fishta Gurakuqi / M. Gjylbegaj / Raising the flag in the Municipality. November 28, 1913. / Raising the flag in the Castle, March 19, 1914.

  • National flag (Point)

    National flag of 1914

  • Weapons of war (Point)

    Shabi, short rifle, 18th-19th century Sword, 19th century - beginning of the 20th century

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