page_title: Culture in Pristina
section_title: National Museum of Kosovo
hierarchical_section_title: Culture in Pristina / Museums / National Museum of Kosovo
caption_attribution_description: English: Prishtina , National Museum of Kosovo . One of the best site to visit while visiting Prishtina
context_page_description: As the capital city of Kosovo, Pristina is the heart of the cultural and artistic development of all Albanians that live in Kosovo. The department of cultural affairs is just one of the segments that arranges the cultural events, which make Pristina one of the cities with the most emphasized cultural and artistic traditions.
  The Goddess on the Throne has been adopted as the symbol of Pristina. It is the most precious archaeological artifacts of Kosovo that has been founded during some excavations in 1955 in the region of Ulpiana, a suburb of Pristina.
  It dates back to 3500 BC in the Neolithic period and is made of clay. Pristina also has its municipal archive which was established in the 1950s and holds all the records of the city, municipality and the region.
context_section_description: The National Museum has a collection of more than 50 thousand exhibits of different profiles, from archaeology, technology, history, nature, ethnoculture, folklore, heritage and many more. Everything that shows the History of Kosovo in different times, from the Neolithic era, through 6 thousand years B.C until modern times, the independence of Kosovo.
  The museum has been operating since 1949. However, the building of the museum was constructed in 1889 and it was designed according to Austro-Hungarian style of construction and its real aim was establishing the high military command of that time.
  The museum is working on the returning of 1200 objects/artifacts that are important for Kosovo's cultural heritage, taken by Serbia in 1998. The Museum of is located in the "Adem Jashari" Square.
caption: Kosovo Museum
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