Italian journalist writes about House of Leaves Museum

The House of Leaves is the newest museum opened in Tirana, just a week ago. But very soon it started to become an attraction not only for tourists but for foreign journalists too.

Cristina Colli, an Italian journalist has published her new article on website  www.artribune.com about the House of Leaves, the newest museum opened in our capital. In this article she describes the story of this building opens as remembrance museum of secret surveillance, offering insight into a dark period of Albanian history.

  It started in 1930 as the private clinic and next to an “investigation house” for the Albanian secret police – “Sigurimi”. Even though the house is situated right in the heart of the city close to the post office, hotels and embassies, it was incognito.  For this reason, it was chosen by  “Sigurimi” to have  a total control of the territory, population, and  diplomatic, political-cultural and economic communities  in the country. 

Photo: Cristiana Colli 

Colli explains  that this  museum features  the totalitarian state’s control over the population  and its presence everywhere through surveillance, espionage and a network of informers.  Inside the building there are many of bugs in the walls, clothes, shoes and objects, and many other equipments and techniques used by the Sigurimi. Also, exhibitions  of that time, showing exactly how people’s lives were completely unprotected and spying with sophisticated technologies. The archive of Sigurimi, the fearsome and fierce Albanian secret police, is an authoritative and artistic device through the culture and education to face the communist past.

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