The National Gallery of Figurative Arts (Galeria Kombëtare e Arteve Figurative) officially opened to the public in Tirana on 11 January 1954, but it stands on its current location on the Boulevard Martyrs of the Nation (Deshmorët e Kombit) only since 1974. The gallery is the most important national institution of exhibiting, conserving, studying, restoring, publishing, documenting and archiving the works of art in Albania. It presently boasts over 4100 art works by Albanian and foreign artists, spanning a time period that starts from the thirteenth century and continues until today.
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