The Museum of Medieval Mining

Ethnological Museum - Emin Gjik complex

9:30-17:30, Sunday: 11-15 h, Monday: Closed, Saturday: 11-15 h.

The traditional 18th century house became part of the Kosovo Museum in 1957 and was turned into a small ethnographic museum in 2003. Known as Emin Gjik's house, a nickname for Emin Gjinolli, whose family owned the house, the complex holds the only original building left in the old bazaar area. (http://www.inyourpocket.com/kosovo/pristina/sightseeing//venue/29315-ethnological_museum.html)
 

Kosova Art Gallery

Info Telefon: 22 78 33
Besucher-Email: gak@ipko.org

10–14, 15–18, Sun 10– 15 h. Closed Sun

"Close to the bizarre-looking central library this relatively large exhibition building is made up of two exhibition halls covering almost 500 square metres and showcasing shows of mostly 2D work by local, and primarily young, artists. Owned and operated by the Ministry of Culture & Sports, the Kosova Art Museum also does a lot of educational work with young children. In front of the entrance stands Pristina's most interesting public artwork – a constellation of metal beams jutting out over the footpath like mikado sticks." (http://www.inyourpocket.com/kosovo/pristina/sightseeing//venue/29388-kosova_art_gallery.html)
 

Kosovo Museum

9:30-17:30, Sunday: 11:00-15:00, Monday: Closed, Saturday: 11:00-15:00 h.

This pretty ochre-painted villa housing the Kosovo Museum was built by Austrians for the Turkish army in 1898, and was used by the Yugoslav national army until 1975. The museum used to have a rich collection of prehistoric objects uncovered in Kosovo – these were all spirited off to Belgrade just before the troubles started in 1998 and many yet have to be returned. The main sight is the late Neolithic clay statue of the sitting goddess, found at Tjerrtorja in 1955 and featured in Pristina's city emblem. In front of the building lies the grandly named Archeological Park, which just contains a few stones and rusting artillery. The 'no more guns' exhibition on the first floor ironically has weapons on display; AK-47s, hand grenades, hunting rifles, Bowie knives, 9mm pistols and nasty .50mm tripod-mounted sniper rifles. Texts are in Albanian only. Outside, you'll find the things they couldn't cart off to Belgrade - several Jewish and Muslim tombstones.

 

The Memorial Museum of the League of Prizren

"The Ottoman-era building where the League held its meetings in 1878, with documents and artefacts connected with the League and with leading figures of the 19th-century Albanian national movement. The one museum that was destroyed in the recent war was this Memorial Museum, burned down by Serbian police using shoulder-launched incendiary projectiles on 28 March 1999.... Some of the now-lost collection of the Memorial Museum of the League of Prizren is described in a bilingual Albanian/Serbian exhibition catalogue, published on the centenary of the League's foundation: Rizvanolli, Masar, Lidhja e Prizrenit, 1878-1881/Prizrenska liga, 1878-1881 (Prishtina: Arkivi i Kosovës, Muzeu i Kosovës/Arhiv Kosova, Muzej Kosova, 1978), 39 + 37 pp.: ill." (András Riedlmayer in: Bosnia Report, 15/16 March/June 2000, http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/marjune00/museums.cfm)

 

The Museum of Oriental Manuscripts

"Housed in the 16th-century Sinan Pasha mosque and displaying treasures of Prizren's Gazi Mehmed Pasha library (founded before 1588) and other mosque libraries." (András Riedlmayer in: Bosnia Report, 15/16 March/June 2000, http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/marjune00/museums.cfm)

 

The Regional Archaeological Museum

"Also housed in an old Ottoman building, it has a collection of artefacts from archaeological excavations at Romaja and other sites in the Prizren area. (András Riedlmayer in: Bosnia Report, 15/16 March/June 2000, http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/marjune00/museums.cfm)

 

The Memorial Museum

"Established as the Miladin Popovic Museum after World War II in honor of a local Communist Party leader and hero of the Partisan resistance, it subsequently acquired the mineral collection of a local cultural and scientific society active in Peja between the wars, along with a small ethnographic collection. Originally housed in Miladin Popovic's family home, the museum is now in the 19th-century Konak of Mehmed Tahir Bey, a restored Ottoman-era mansion that was formerly used as the municipal public library." (András Riedlmayer in: Bosnia Report, 15/16 March/June 2000, http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/marjune00/museums.cfm)

 

National Park Sar/Sharr Mountains

Info Telefon: +381 290/ 70 238

"The Sar mountains ... is a mountain located on the southern border of Serbia (in Kosovo) and the northwest part of Republic of Macedonia...

Vegetation on the mountain includes crops up to around 1000 meters, forests up to 1700 meters, and above that lie high pastures which encompass around 550 square kilometers. The Sar mountain is the largest compact area covered with pastures on the European continent. This mountain is most known as the origin of the dog breed Sarplaninac ... which was bred on these pastures.

The Sara/Sharr National Park is in the territory of the Autonomous Province Kosovo* and it spreads on 380 square kilometres, on the northern slopes of Sar/Sharr. What this national boasts in particular are the endemic relict Macedonian pine and white-bark pine, as well as the Alpine rose. As for game, this is the habitat of the lynx, bear, chamois, wolf, roe deer, wild boar and other species.

A locality called "Gine voda" is special attraction because the white-bark pine, Macedonian pine, skotch pine, spruce, sycamore... are represented there all on a small area.

The Sara/Sharr National Park abounds in streams and small rivers and it spreads in the municipalities of Urosevac, Suva Reka, Kacanik and Prizren (in Kosovo province) and Jegunovce, Tearce, Dzepciste, Tetovo and Gostivar (in Republic of Macedonia)." (Wikipedia)

*) Sara is in Kosovo and Metohija - the teritory under protection of KFOR forces.
 

Municipal Museum in Mitrovice

"Housed in the restored 18th-century hamam (Turkish baths) of Zenel Bey, this museum has the second-largest archaeological collection after the Kosovo Museum, as well as more modest ethnographic and natural history sections and the requisite World War II memorabilia." (András Riedlmayer in: Bosnia Report, 15/16 March/June 2000, http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/marjune00/museums.cfm)