Ethnological Museum (Emin Gjiku Complex)
Eighteenth-century walled house complex showing Kosovar Albanian dress, crafts and domestic life.
The Ethnological Museum occupies the Emin Gjiku complex, one of the last surviving walled family compounds of Pristina's old bazaar quarter. Built in the eighteenth century for the Gjinolli family, it consists of a two-storey main house, a guest house, a stable and outbuildings set around a garden behind a high wall. The timber-framed upper floors, carved ceilings and shuttered verandas are characteristic of Albanian urban building in the Ottoman period.
The complex became a museum in 1959 and now houses the ethnological department of the Museum of Kosovo. The display is arranged around the cycle of life, with rooms devoted to birth, marriage, death and spiritual heritage, and to the separate men's and women's quarters of the traditional house. Costumes, filigree jewellery, weapons, copper vessels, looms and carved furniture are shown in their original settings, and the garden keeps mature trees and a fountain.
Highlights
- Eighteenth-century walled compound of the old bazaar quarter
- Rooms arranged around birth, marriage, death and belief
- Costumes, filigree jewellery and carved domestic woodwork
- Walled garden with guest house and stable
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