The new museum, projected by the architectural studio Casanova + Hernandez, has been designed as a space which promote the dialogue between tradition and modernity, past and present.

The heritage and tradition are emphasized by means of the restoration project of the historic building designed by Kole Idromeno – Albanian artist and architect, former student of Pietro Marubbi – while preserving its structural features.

What we note in the three generations of photographers is their desire to be contemporary and adapt to the time and the context from a socio-esthetic and technological point of view.

The Marubi atelier preserved its originality for over one century, but in the beginning of the 1950s it was handled to the communist anonymity joining other photographers in a cooperative.

These photographers who were children when they studied in the “Dritëshkroja Marubi” became part of the Phototeque, not as students, but as authors of their own photography collection.

The new Marubi Phototeque, a section of the City Museum administrated by the Municipality of Shkodër, was founded from an archive of almost half a million glass negatives.

-30.07.2017 - The meeting tent of a courtyard, Curated by Luçjan Bedeni, 09.05.2016-20.01.2017 - Women from the Marubi archive, Kuruar nga Kim Knoppers, 09.05.2016-20.01.2017 - Nadar.

Rule and caprice, Curated by Michel Poivert, In collaboration with Jeu de Paume, Paris, 10.10.2018-03.02.2019 - Armin Linke: A card or maybe two.