National Museum of Kosovo
Kosovo's oldest museum, holding the Neolithic Goddess on the Throne and over 50,000 objects.
Founded in 1949, the National Museum of Kosovo occupies a solid late Austro-Hungarian style block of 1889 beside the old town of Pristina, a building that previously served military and administrative uses. It is the country's oldest museum institution and holds more than fifty thousand objects divided between archaeology, ethnography, history and natural science. The institution also administers the Emin Gjiku ethnological complex and the Museum of Independence.
Its best-known object is the Goddess on the Throne, a small Neolithic terracotta figure from the Tjerretorja site in Pristina, dated to roughly the sixth millennium BC and adopted as the city's emblem. Other rooms cover Dardanian and Roman material from Ulpiana and Municipium Dardanorum, medieval metalwork, costume and weapons. A large part of the archaeological collection was removed to Belgrade in 1998 and 1999, and the return of the objects remains unresolved.
Highlights
- The Neolithic Goddess on the Throne, emblem of Pristina
- Dardanian and Roman finds from Ulpiana and other Kosovo sites
- 1889 building beside the Ottoman quarter of the old town
- Parent institution of the Emin Gjiku ethnological complex
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