The National Centre of Cultural Property Inventory (NCCPI) ( or ''QKIPK)'' is the national registry of
cultural property
Cultural property, also known as cultural patrimony, comprises the physical items that are part of the cultural heritage of a group or society, as opposed to less tangible cultural expressions. They include such items as cultural landscapes, histo ...
in
Albania
Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to ...
.
Background
The centre was founded by
Dashnor Kokonozi, also its first director, in the early 1990s after the breakdown of law and order in Albania following the ousting of the Communist regime led to looting of cultural heritage objects. Requests to
Interpol
The International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL (abbreviated as ICPO–INTERPOL), commonly known as Interpol ( , ; stylized in allcaps), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime cont ...
for help tracing looted objects revealed a lack of records in Albania and Kokonozi persuaded the
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and Grant (money), grants to the governments of Least developed countries, low- and Developing country, middle-income countries for the purposes of economic development ...
to fund the creation of the first national inventory.
[Albania Struggles to Catalogue its Unknown Treasures.]
''BalkanInsight'', 30 October 2010. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
Scope
The centre aims to register all of Albania's cultural assets held by museums, galleries, art institutes, religious communities and private collectors by creating an illustrated "passport" for each item recording the item type, name, author, owner, where it was found, the current location and the period or movement to which it belongs.
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Coverage
Although the registration of objects held by institutions is almost complete, the registration of objects in private ownership has hardly begun due to a lack of public awareness of the scheme, the lack of awareness by the public of the value of items held privately, and the wish of some individuals to keep their ownership of heritage items private so that they can be traded confidentially on the illegal art market.[ The register is divided into two parts, those where the location is known, and those which are lost.]
Staff
The first director of the NCCPI was Dashnor Kokonozi. The director in 2010 was Izet Duraku.[
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References
External links
*http://ekphrasisstudio.com/2014/11/16/art-heist-in-albania/
News report of the work of the NCCPI.
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Historiography of Albania