The Museum of Education in Korça welcomes visitors from Kosovo and North Macedonia

The Museum of Education in the city of Korça these days was visited by a considerable number of tourists. This is reported by the museum itself, which has also shared photos on its website from the visits of the last few days. "These holidays, the Museum of Education was visited by a significant number of tourists. Most of the visitors consisted of organized groups of teachers who came from Kosovo and North Macedonia", says the museum on Facebook, which has also published some photos of the visitors. On March 7, on Teacher's Day, the exhibition "The first disciples through the evidence of time" was opened in this museum. An exhibition, which was organized in the framework of the 136th anniversary of the hatching of the First Albanian Teacher. In the library hall of the museum, all those who want to visit will see for the first time personal objects, testimonies, documents, photographs, letters written by the important personalities of the two schools that were opened in Korça, the First Albanian Teacher and the Girls' Teacher. Now part of the museum fund, these objects, photographs and testimonies belong to the founders, teachers and students of these first national schools and were donated by their descendants. The first school was opened on March 7, 1887, under the conditions of the Ottoman occupation, and it was created by a group of revivalists, while it was the first elementary school with a pronounced national and secular physiognomy, where all lessons were taught in the Albanian language. According to the documents of the time, the activity of this school was permeated by patriotic ideas, work education and love of knowledge. The first Albanian teacher was widely supported by the patriotic Korça and exile groups.