From 27 february 1986 Onufri National Museum is located in
the inner part of “Saint Mary Church” in Castle
of Berat. The Museum is called “Onufri”, in honor
to the Albanian painting Headmaster of XVI Century.
The Church is rebuilt during the 1797, where the Cathedral
of City was placed. The Cathedral is the most representative
monument of post Byzantine architecture in Berat town.
The museum collection is constituted with 173 objects chosen
from a found of 1500 objects, belonging to the found of Albanian
Churches and Monasteries as well as to Berat, where you can
find 106 Icons and 67 Liturgical objects, created from Albanians
Iconographical Painters during XVI – XX th Centuries:
Onufri, Onufri `s son, Nicola, Cypriot Onufri, David Selenica,
Kostandin Shpataraku and Cetirs (Gjergj, Nicola, Johan, Naum,
Gjergj junior) and a lot of anonymous painters.
Icon holder of Berat Cathedral is inscribed by master Naum
from Lavdar, Opar and Master Stefan Barka from Misras, Opar
in the middle of XIX th Century.
