Thankfully for travellers of a curious/ghoulish bent, it's been reconstructed in chunks. The pavilion dedicated to the nation's experiences in the Second World War under Italian occupation have been recently restored to join the less contentious displays of politically neutral pottery, but they're currently hard at work to resurrect Hoxha's glorified trophy room covering the partisan struggle against the axis powers and the 'achievements' of the Communist era through to 1991, albeit it with more balance than was previously the case.

“Twenty years have passed since the advent of democracy and the museum should objectively represent all the country’s achievements,” Luan Malltezi, the museum director, said to Balkan Insight, promising that it will be “an honest representation of the period.”

"Although the pavilion was a megalomaniacal affair and it politicized some of the items, they did help tell the story of the country’s reconstruction [after the war] and have historic value,” the writer and historian, Moikom Zeqo, said in the same article.

Currently the biggest museum in Albania, the National Historic Museum is one of the capital's main tourist attractions, boasting over 4,000 objects which recount the story of this particular chunk of the land from the Illyrian tribes of antiquity to the grandeur of Albania's 14th Century princes, and ignoring the half a century which shaped modern Albania so profoundly is an act of understandable denial for a people so heavily traumatised, but an act of crass ignorance for history.