By Fatos Bytyci and Florion Goga TIRANA (Reuters) - A museum built in Albania in the 1980s to honour longtime Communist dictator Enver Hoxha is being ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSBy Fatos Bytyci and Florion Goga
Now the ex-museum, re-designed by Dutch architect Winy Maas, is preparing to host hundreds of young Albanians keen for training in computer technology and coding - part of the government's drive for closer links with the European Union. Leon Cika, one of the museum's original curators, said that at the time it was completed, as Soviet-dominated regimes across eastern Europe were starting to crumble, he sensed it would prove"the last shovel for a monument to communism" in Albania.
The cubistic interior features what look like sets of stacked containers, which will serve as classrooms, rising several floors to the original glass cupola.
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