TIRANA, Nov 2 /ATA/ – The Albanian national museum dedicated to Byzantine art and iconography in Berat, has attracted more than 90 000 local and foreign visitors during the period between January and September 2024. 

According to the Museums Centre in Berat, a UNESCO World Heritage site and a major tourist destination in Albania, in September alone, a total of 21 252 tourists visited the Onufri Iconography Museum. 

“Steady growth in number of visitors to Onufri Iconography Museum continues, with a total of 90355 visitors since beginning of the year,” the Museums Centre said on Saturday. 

The museum is located inside the Church of the Dormition of St Mary in the castle quarter Berat. 

The Onufri Museum houses over 200 artwork objects, icons and liturgical items dated from the 14th century to the 20th, brought together from several churches and monasteries in the region. The icons are painted by renowned Albanian icon painters such as Onufri, Onufri’s son Nikolla, Onufër the Cypriot, David Selenica, Kostandin Shpataraku, the Çetiri tribe with Gjergji, Johani, Nikolla, Naumi, and his son Gjergji, as well as anonymous painters. 

The museum has been named after Onufri, a painting master of the 16th century. 

The cathedral is an example of the typical post-Byzantine architecture in the museum city of Berat. 

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