Kosovo's history will always be remembered, but how valuable it is to keep a few artefacts from that period, so that we can see and comprehend how people lived in the past. As a result, Prishtina's museum is a combination of old antiques, and weapons that people have battled with and after visiting it ,I was curious and mesmerised with everything that I saw.
The first floor of the museum is mostly vessels which people used for daily use, decorations , beakers and vases, but the one that I found quite interesting was a container called 'Pitos,' which was used to store liquid or dry food. They were from various centuries.
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| Pitos |
Therefore there were necklaces made of glass paste beads, bronze bracelets .The details and how they were made is very unique and quite interesting.
Then I saw some sculptures and the bust of the Dardanian Woman also known as Dea Dardanica, is a bust from the II century, an archaeological artifact found in Kllokot that apparently represents a kind of personification of the Dardanian Goddess.The Dardanian goddess, closely associated with the belief in the supreme power of the Sun and in the cult of it, became the personification of this belief from the Dardanian urban phase.
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| Emperor Philip II |
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Marble woman's head |
Dea Dardanica
The best part of the museum was as I went to the second floor .The things that I saw there made me feel so emotional, so powerful and made me proud of the individuals who fought for us, women and men.
Mother Teresa staple mosaic
Then must stop at the heroes who risked their lives to preserve our country, people, Adem Jashari and his relatives, they were part of UQK. I saw a lot of their weapons, uniforms, laptops, and satellite phones used by the general staff of UQK in the museum, but the most interesting was Adem Jashari's motorcycle, where I could see the bullets that went in plainly.
The weapons
The motorcycle of Adem Jashari
I should also mention the heavy caliber shells that I saw that were used by the NATO forces when they attacked the Serbs to save Kosovo. It is also the uniform of an Albanian-American pilot, which was very powerful.
What made me mostly emotional that I cried was when I saw the evidence from Serbian violence, cold weapons, spears, syringe, traces of rape.
Then I went to the Ethnological museum
I was completely mesmerised, and it was really fascinating to visit this place. When I went there , the tour guide described the place and told me that this house was once owned by Emin Gjikolli's family. The museum exhibits tools and items related to the lifestyle from the Ottoman period of Kosovo.
On the second floor I saw the big guest room which totally fascinated me, how it was so perfectly and detailed woodwork , and there were also some handkerchiefs hanging on the wall and a musical instrument, and it was interesting.
I saw a traditional outfit and it was so unique and very detailed, it was a traditional costume from Hasi.
What I liked the most was a notepad next to the cabinet, and I saw that people from different countries left signatures, and I was very excited that I left mine there too.
In addition to all of this, I felt very good that I had the opportunity to learn more about my country and that these elementary things were quite important to the people of the period. My country is culturally diverse and has an extraordinary history, thus it is important that we never lose our roots and pass them on to future generations.
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