Out of the Cave: The Many Lives of Surviving Islamic Artifacts in Post-communist Albania

Out of the Cave: The Many Lives of Surviving Islamic Artifacts in Post-communist Albania

For a year now, I have been working with friends and colleagues to establish a museum of Muslim cultural heritage in Albania, an initiative led by the Konak Institute, a volunteer-based project founded a year ago. Given current debates about the colonial roots of museums and the place of religious objects in such institutions, the question inevitably arises: why establish a museum? What narrative would such a museum seek to convey? What types of…