Bunk'Art 2

Bunk'Art 2 is in the centre of Tirana, opposite the city hall, inside a nuclear bunker built in the late 1980s. Its corridors and underground rooms hold documents, objects and multimedia displays about the state security apparatus under the communist regime: surveillance, political persecution, internment and prison.

It is serious material and not designed for small children, but it is one of the clearest ways to understand modern Albania, and it takes about an hour or two. The museum's site lists it as open daily from 09:30 to 18:30; the older Bunk'Art 1, by the Dajti cable car, opens 09:30 to 16:30. It is a good wet-weather or midday-heat choice in Tirana.