Today we started at the Muzeu Kombetar, the National Museum, which has this mosaic above the doorway.  The museum collection spans from ancient Illyria through the current day.  We stopped right after WWII, so we didn’t get to the part that shows Hoxha’s excesses.  That can wait until we return. After the Museum visit, I went into a bookstore to purchase an Albanian language dictionary and some other books.  I wanted to see if I could conduct the entire transaction in Albanian, so I carefully explained to the saleswoman that I was an American and that I didn’t speak Albanian…