The Solomon Museum (, also called the "Solomoni Museum"A Visit To Berat’s Only Jewish Museum, theExit, published on 29 November 2018, accessed on 26 July 2026) is a museum in the Albanian city of Berat devoted to the history of the Jewish community in Albania.
History Opened in 2018 by Professor Simon Vrusho, who ran it with his own pension and small donations,Albania’s endangered Jewish museum celebrates ‘rebirth’. The Times of Israel the museum was on the brink of closure after Vrusho passed away. However, Gazmend Toska, a French-Albanian businessperson, read about the museum and its possible fate, and paid for the relocation of the museum to a larger place in the city,Albania's endangered Jewish museum reopens. France24 which relocation took place on September 29, 2019.Albania's endangered Jewish museum reopens. Yahoo! News The museum is unique among its peers for telling the stories of how Albanians saved almost 2,000 Jews from the Holocaust, following the Albanians' centuries-old Besa code of honor.Last Jewish history museum survives in Albania. The Jerusalem PostThe Promise: Why Albanians Saved So Many Jews During World War II. Radio Free Europe
Collections The museum has documents, photos, and items that have belonged to the Jewish community, who arrived in Berat in the 16th century from Spain, fleeing the Inquisition. Albania is the only Nazi-occupied territory whose Jewish population increased during World War II. The museum's current director is Angjelina Vrusho, Simon Vrusho's wife. Last Jewish history museum survives in Albania. European Jewish Congress
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