Assigned duty – a visit to a museum

 

This week on Friday, I assigned a duty to myself, and that was to visit a museum. I decided to visit a museum in my city Gjilan. For my curiosity and love for history I have, there I have seen a lot yet a little from my culture. Only two stories tall but way to offer.

 

                               

                                                                                                               

Entering the museum I was met with this huge dish called Pitos on the right side and a not that small stone on the ground with a human figure. As well as museum associates tutor Mr. Sabit Rrustemi and Mrs. Majlinda Hazirithat helped me with pictures. Very eager to see more I walked on the second floor and there it was, the piece of our culture. Clothes for both men and women, various kitchen tools, an iron, an old telephone with the wire, a little dining table that has you sit on the ground, so many tools for field means, a wooden box like to cook pastries and so many more.  It gave me goosebumps as I walked around and looked at all this. I thought to myself how difficult life might have been in the past knowing how easy things can be done nowadays. Even clothes that were used and hats that went along or a scarf either on your head or your shoulders and the front piece of cloth as part of the dress in various colors that depended on the region I was told by the tutor. Beautiful!

 

There was something there that we used to have in our house and that was a phone with the wire.  I laughed when I saw it because of the hassle we encountered every time we used it and the noise it made. To do that you had to put your finger on the little whole to the number and dial the number. I wish we can have them back in use and I really mean it. It brought me back in time but nice to be reminded of old –precious I call – an old style phone that is unfamiliar to the current generation. No cameras, picture exchange or background colors but still got the message across. Just imagine how life was in the past, comparing it to nowadays technology flourishment.

 

Walking around and hunting for more of our culture, I saw small little chairs, very low ones and a low dining table almost touching the floor. You had to sit on the ground for you to be able to dine. Then the firing place they used to cook and warm the room was incredible for the fact that it was not surrounded by a protective fence. Amazing to see various buckets in different sizes to cook and preserve food. Fascinated to see how they were used, we can only imagine how difficult life was back then. Tools to cut grass, a very heavy iron and small and large dishes to cook and buckets to warm the water for a shower.

 

Greatly impressed with what I saw from close regarding our culture and the way our people have lived and appliances and means they have used. Worth of paying a visit and would recommend everyone to do so and feel the history from close and the pride for their courage to make the best of their life.

                                                                       Sofra 

1.Dybek         2.Tpini          3.Kacë druri      4.Kacë druri        5.Vozë

                              Dishes made of copper used for cooking and showering purposes

                                      

An iron and tools used for field work

                   

                                                                 Traditional clothes