The museum is located in a traditional
house built in the middle of the 18th
century A.D (1764), by Ismail Pashe
Toptani. The architecture of the building
includes a closed corridor, a tower type,
and is two stories high, with 60-80 cm
thick walls. There are frescoes of the
Baroque and Islamic style, witch decorate
most of its main rooms. Starting from

the entrance it is possible to see the door lintels made of sculpted
stone and the stone-paved roads roads. In this building there are
many traditional elements of the area, dealing with traditional life. At the entrance, there are several models of natural springs,
which testify that Kruja had in the past several such springs. The
origin of the name "Kruje", comes from "kroje" which means
"spring" in Albanian.

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