It was this impregnable fortress that helped George Kastrioti Skanderbeg defend Albania from the Ottoman invasion for more than two decades.

[2] The Skanderbeg Museum project was based on the conceptual platform designed by Aleks Buda in September 1976, which was sent as a design assignment to the Institute of Studies and Projets (ISP) No.1 Tirana, under the direction of architect Pirro Vaso.

The design team consisted of Pirro Vaso, Pranvera Hoxha, F. Stermasi, K. Meka, L. Gashi, Gjarçani and R. Agalliu, who designed a building which would be stylistic to the Albanian medieval towers, mainly built in northern Albania.

[4] In March 1980, the Ministry of Education and Culture set up two working groups for the preparation of the museum content model, pavilions, mural paintings, and so on.

Paintings, armor, and other artifacts dating back to his time have been exhibited to showcase one of the proudest periods of Albanian history.