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Çerçiz Topulli's mannequin that stirred up the internet, the director of Cultural Heritage tells what happened

2026-09-21 16:20:28Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

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On Saturday, the head of the Cultural Heritage Agency, Florian Hysi, resigned from his post after mocking Çerçiz Topulli at the Historical Museum in the Gjirokastra castle.

At the center of the reactions was the way the mannequin was displayed, where the historical figure's clothes were placed. The display was considered inappropriate and not in line with the exhibition's conception.

Regarding this, today Florian Hysi was in direct contact with the show "Shqipëria Live" with Sidorela Gjon, who stated that 'the mannequin did not even stay exposed for 15 minutes'.

Sidorela Gjoni: I want to understand what the truth is about this whole story? How did that image end up in the museum?

Florin Hysi: Starting as a staff member of the Cultural Heritage Agency in Gjirokastra, for the month of September there are several important dates referring to the fighters of the National Renaissance, which was September 15th.

September 18th is the date of the Liberation of the city of Gjirokastra and September 20th is the birthday of our hero Çerçiz Topulli. In this context, we thought of holding an exhibition around September 15-20th, bringing to attention all these figures, these heroes of the nation, all the efforts that have been made for freedom and independence.

We thought we would organize this exhibition with interpretive material of the freedom struggle costume of Çerçiz Topulli, on an enviable mannequin located in the museum, but we did not order the mannequin with that appearance that appeared on all social networks. And what should never have happened happened. Of course, I apologize publicly again, and I also took personal responsibility.

It was thought that for the exhibition of this costume, this interpretive material, accompanied by weapons of the time period, the 1900s. It was thought to display this costume with these weapons of the period for the sake of this exhibition. It was thought, it was judged very wrongly by an employee, the museum guide, to make an artistic intervention that went wrong.

That whole image that captured all the networks and attention, since the essence was the message we wanted to give about the importance of the movements and fighters of the National Renaissance and the national liberation war, was taken away by a very wrong and irrelevant detail for what we wanted to convey.

That image of that mannequin, which was neither a statue, nor a cultural asset, nor a work of art in wood, whose image was tampered with and ruined, only lasted 15 minutes after I realized it.

It didn't even last 15 minutes on display in the place they thought it would be. But the footage was taken and the networks did their job. Sorry, sorry. I took personal responsibility, I resigned and I believe everyone will understand me for what happened.

On the day of the exhibition, we brought it back after about 35-40 years of being forgotten in the castle's basement. Even the works of art and culture, which we took care of with specialist curators, that portrayed the figure of Çerçiz Topulli himself, his fight for freedom and independence together with the Mashkullores platoon, immortalized both in history and in those works that were left in the darkness of the castle's basement.


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