A Cold War Bunker on the outskirts of Tirana, Albania, has been repurposed as a museum and art space.

Beneath the central business district of Tirana, Albania, a museum inside a nuclear bunker gives an insight into the paranoid reign of dictator Enver Hoxha

Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha was convinced foreign powers would invade, and ordered the ‘Bunkerization of Albania’. The scale of the program is mind-boggling: the construction of 221,143 bunkers was planned.

After taking control, dictator Enver Hoxha wasted no time in building a terrifying state security apparatus that imprisoned the people of Albania within their nation’s borders, and sought to control all aspects of their lives.