Vlora History Museum, History museum in Vlorë District, Albania

The Vlora History Museum is a history institution in southwestern Albania that displays artifacts, photographs, and documents about the region's historical development. The exhibitions combine permanent displays with rotating collections to present different periods and aspects of the local past.

The building served the local government bodies and mass organizations before the museum was founded there in 1962. Its displays cover the region from antiquity onward, with a section on Vlora's role in the 1912 declaration of independence and pavilions on the 1920 War of Vlora and the June 1924 Democratic Movement. The original lead-and-glass coffin of patriot Avni Rustemi, found by chance in the mid-1980s during boulevard reconstruction, is kept here.

The museum keeps the original lead coffin, partly glazed and draped in the national flag, in which the patriot Avni Rustemi was buried. It was found by chance in the mid-1980s during reconstruction of the Vlorë–Skelë boulevard, near today's statue of Rustemi, and later placed in the museum.

The museum occupies a distinctive building in the city centre that once housed local government bodies and mass organisations. Its rooms hold archaeological finds from Orikum, Amantia, Ploca, Olympias (Mavrovë) and Kionia, plus medieval documents and weapons, so allow time for several sections. A separate corner covers Vlorë's role in the 1912 declaration of independence.

The museum holds the original lead coffin, covered with the national flag and partly glazed, in which the patriot Avni Rustemi was buried. Workers found it by chance in the mid-1980s during reconstruction of the Vlorë–Skelë boulevard, near today's statue of Rustemi, in an underground chamber; he was reburied almost on the same spot and the coffin came to the museum.