The machine that brings back memories-Rina Sahiti

 The machine that brings back memories

It was a Friday afternoon when my colleague and I decided to go and visit ˝The National Museum of Kosovo˝, this museum holds the history and the pain my nation went through but at the same time it makes me proud of it, even though Kosovo is a young country, its history is ancient starting from the Late Antiquity until nowadays. Many artifacts that are inside the Museum such as Vases, necklaces, Hyjnesha ne Fron, flout, qawwali, piano, musical notes, the KLA uniforms, and arms but also traces of genocide that Serbia did in Kosovo.                                                                                                                                                                  On the first floor are vases from the Medieval age, it was really interesting to see how the vases were saved throughout the time even though some of them were half-broken, it surprised me to see how they were craved and created. In the same line, there were necklaces and rings that were worn by medieval women. It made me think of the machines that they used to give them shapes, where did they find the materials, the stones, and how did they learn to create them in that amazing way?.

  

(Old vases and jewels)

Hyjnesha ne Fron stood in the center of the Museum, I was speechless and fascinated to see that wonderful statue that represented the women in that period. Hyjnesha is a terracotta figure that was found in 1956 near Prishtina, it has a high of 18.5cm and dates 5700-4500BC, it is thought to represent the mother that created the human race, it also has different craves that are thought to be writings in the ancient language that Illyrian used. As I was going into the second floor of the museum, there was a mural of Mother Teresa, which represents peace, kindness, and unity between people no matter their ethnicity.

(Mother Teresa)

                                                         (Picture taken by Florentine Rrustolli)

  There was a picture of Adem Jashari which represents the resistance and the unity of our nation.

(Adem Jashari)

 On the second floor was a special place which represents our music history, there were the music notes which in them it was painted a qifteli, and there were flout, qawwali which gave me a feeling of mixture between happiness and sadness because in those times music was not only used as an entertaining tool, but in the same time it was the only way to learn the glorious and painful history that our nation has because in those times the wrong history was taught, in the years that Kosovo was part of Serbia, the regime taught the Slavic history and the history that was convenient to the regime.

(Musical notes)

                                                                     

                                   

(Flouts)

On the second floor were also the clothes of the ˝Batalioni i Atlantikut˝,  arms that were used during the war like M24. It is a special feeling because I saw women and men who left their homes and came to our country to give us the freedom to live an independent life. In the museum are traces of what Serbians did to our nations for example cold weapons, knives, syringes, and traces of rape. Throughout all the hardships and the sufferings that my nation experienced it was the moment of glory when I saw the Declaration of Independence of Kosovo. This declaration is the highest act that a nation has it guarantees freedom, equality, and justice. This was gained with a painful past but many generations are proud and will be so will I whenever I will talk and think about Kosovo.

 

(Declaration of Independence of Kosovo)

 

(Traces of rape, cold weapons, knife, syringe).

@Rina Sahiti