The people’s Painter Vangjush Miho was born in 1891 in Korca. His drawings of 1906 are evidence of his passion for painting when he was in the secondary school, which he could not finish because of ill health. In 1908 his brother took him in Bucharest where he had emigrated earlier. He entered in the School of Fine Arts of Bucharest in painting branch in 1915 and he graduated from his school in 1919.
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The First School in Albanian language (called Mësonjëtorja) was opened on March 7, 1887 in the current building of The National Education Museum, a 150 year old building. It was opened by permission of Ottoman Empire. This building was the house of the patriot from Korca, Diamanti Terpo, who donated this home for the Albanian school.
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National Museum of Medieval Art in Korca was inaugurated on April 24, 1980. It is one of the most important museum centers in Albania. Its fund includes over 7 thousand art and cult items, mainly icons and less stone, wooden, metal and textile works of anonymous and well known artists from different areas of the country.
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