Babel

Like in a film by Emir Kusturica, the National Library of Kosovo emerges from the fog of Pristina as a growing organic structure. The building was opened in November 1982 and became a national symbol. In the 90s, during the war in Kosovo, it was used by the Serbian Army as a command centre.

During that period, the building became a symbolic battlefield for ethnic cleansing and 100,000 books in the Albanian language were destroyed. After the war, the library was enriched with 30,000 new titles and the collection reached 2 million volumes after the Kosovo declaration of independence in February 2008.