{"id":7044,"date":"2023-10-16T12:54:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T12:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/2023\/10\/16\/the-opening-of-the-atheist-museum\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:51:43","slug":"the-opening-of-the-atheist-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/2023\/10\/16\/the-opening-of-the-atheist-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opening of the &#8220;Atheist Museum&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Atheist Museum&#8221; opens in Shkod\u00ebr, with anti-religious propaganda. Albania ranks as the first country worldwide to have an atheist museum. On 10 July 1968, an atheist exhibition entitled &#8220;On the reactionary role of religion&#8221; was inaugurated in Shkod\u00ebr, which remained open for 5 years and served as a traveling exhibition going to villages, highlands, and industrial areas to make anti-religious propaganda. On June 9, 1973, the exhibition was transformed into an &#8220;Atheist Museum&#8221; with anti-religious propaganda. At the entrance of the museum, a quote by Marx has placed: &#8220;Religion is opium for the people.&#8221; In the stands of each pavilion, documents, photographs, and various materials were exhibited, which aimed to highlight the hostile and reactionary role of the clergy, especially the Catholic one, as a servant of the Vatican and imperialism. Also, this museum had a moving exhibition consisting of 23 stands, which were exhibited in different areas of Shkodra and Albania. The &#8220;Atheist Museum&#8221; remained open until December 13, 1990. <i>(In the photo: Interior view of the &#8220;Atheist Museum&#8221;)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.bashkiashkoder.gov.al\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/www.observatorikujteses.al\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Atheist Museum&#8221; opens in Shkod\u00ebr, with anti-religious propaganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9846,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions\/9846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}