Dr Nikola Nezlobinski Museum
Struga's town museum, founded in 1928 around a natural history collection from the Lake Ohrid basin.
The museum in Struga was begun in 1928 by Nikola Nezlobinski, a Russian doctor who had come to the town in 1924 to run the malaria station. Struck by the wildlife of the Lake Ohrid basin, he started collecting and preparing specimens, and the natural history cabinet he assembled became the first museum in the region. It is now a national institution named after him, holding departments of biology, archaeology, ethnology, history and art history.
The natural history rooms remain the heart of the museum, with mounted birds and mammals, fish of Lake Ohrid, insects and a herbarium recording species found nowhere else. Other rooms show prehistoric and Roman finds from the Struga field, icons and woodcarving, and ethnographic material on fishing, weaving and the trades of the town. The museum sits close to the bridge over the Crn Drim and takes part in the programme of the Struga Poetry Evenings each summer.
Highlights
- Founded in 1928 by the doctor Nikola Nezlobinski
- Natural history collection of the Lake Ohrid basin
- Archaeology, icons and ethnography of the Struga field
- Two exhibition buildings near the Crn Drim bridge
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