Tirana, “Enver Hoxha” Museum
Starting a short series of cards from what is now called the “Pyramid of Tirana,” best described (we think) by this Wikipedia entry: “On 14 October 1988
, the structure opened as the Enver Hoxha Museum, originally serving as a museum about the legacy of Enver Hoxha, the long-time leader of Communist Albania, who had died three years earlier. The structure was co-designed by Hoxha’s daughter Pranvera Hoxha, an architect, and her husband Klement Kolaneci, along with Pirro Vaso and Vladimir Bregu. When built, the Pyramid was said to be the most expensive individual structure ever constructed in Albania. The Pyramid has sometimes been sardonically called the “Enver Hoxha Mausoleum”, although this was never its intended use or official appellation.” There’s more, and right now the Pyramid is under some sort of renovation. As for this card, unused and issued in 1989, significant handling but good-of-kind. Grade: 2