Historic site · Tiranë
The Pyramid of Tirana
Built as Enver Hoxha's mausoleum-museum, later a nightclub and NATO base, reopened in 2023 as a youth technology centre.
- Type
- Museum of surveillance
- Period
- Building 1931; museum since 2017
- Original use
- Built 1931 as a maternity clinic
- Later
- Sigurimi surveillance and interception centre
In plain language
The House of Leaves was where the secret police listened in on people's phone calls and planted microphones. It is now a museum showing the equipment they used and the files they kept.
Simple explanation
The House of Leaves was where the secret police listened in on people's phone calls and planted microphones. It is now a museum showing the equipment they used and the files they kept.
On this page
Connected subjects
Nearby
City · Tiranë
Tirana
The capital: a fast-changing city of painted blocks, Ottoman survivals and new towers, under Mount Dajti.
Historic site · Tiranë
Bunk'Art
A five-storey anti-nuclear bunker built for the communist leadership, opened to the public in 2014.
Related subjects
Historical period
Communist Albania
Forty-six years under Enver Hoxha and his successor: total collectivisation, the banning of religion, successive breaks with…
Person
Enver Hoxha
The leader who took Albania out of the Soviet bloc, then out of the Chinese one, and banned religion outright.
Subject
The Sigurimi
The Directorate of State Security: the secret police of communist Albania, and the institution the House of Leaves museum was…
Sources
- Wikimedia Commons.
Photographs
· retrieved 13 Oct 2026
Each photograph carries its own creator, licence and file link beneath it. Only public-domain, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA files are published.
Something wrong on this page? Corrections are welcome and are checked against the source record. Tell us what is wrong and, if you can, where the right figure comes from.