Bunk'Art 1

Bunk'Art 1 occupies the enormous shelter the communist government built on the eastern edge of Tirana, near the lower station of the Dajti cable car, to keep En…Bunk'Art 1 occupies the enormous shelter the communist government built on the eastern edge of Tirana, near the lower station of the Dajti cable car, to keep Enver Hoxha and his leadership alive through an atomic attack. It runs five levels underground across roughly three thousand square metres, and the exhibition threads through most of its chambers.

The subject is Albania's military and political story from the Italian occupation through the whole communist period, told in the corridors and offices built for it, with the leader's own quarters and the assembly hall kept as they were. It sits with Bunk'Art 2 in the centre as a pair, and this is the larger and stranger of the two, a half-day rather than an hour.