Reporting House brings together one of the richest collections documenting Kosovo’s recent history. The museum presents more than 150 television reports and around 500 photographs from the period 1981–1999, documenting key moments through the work of local and international journalists, photographers and media organisations.

Reporting House is an initiative of Jeta Xharra, one of Kosovo’s best-known journalists, who began her career at the age of 19 as a war reporter and translator for the BBC. The museum was curated by Gazmend Ejupi, a curator from Kosovo whose work and vision have been shaped by the country’s experience of resistance for freedom and its cultural development.

Our archive includes material from Frontline Television News, BBC News, Reuters, Das Erste, NHK, RTÉ, EO 2 Vandaag, Tele 5, Koha Ditore, RTK, RTV21, The New York Times, Associated Press and Nippon TV.

The museum was made possible through the contributions of journalists, photographers, researchers and collaborators, including Vaughan Smith, Donika Shahini, Ilaz Bylykbashi, Ridvan Slivova, Hazir Reka, Eliza Hoxha, David Loyn, Flaka Surroi, Murteza Kurti, Alan Chin, Jeremy Bowen, Nick Millard, Goran Tomašević, Besnik Mehmeti, Paul Lowe, Max Stahl, Jehona Lushaku, Gëzim and Gazmend Avdiu, Paul S. Refsdal, Selajdin Krasniqi, Veton Kasapolli, Andrew Testa, Marija Ristić, Fred Scott, Nora Visoka Weller, Visar Kryeziu, Sean Whelan, Julius Strauss, Sami Mustafa, Alban Bujari, Linda Gusia, Leman Kamberi, Eki Rrahmani, Ben Brown, Thomas Dworzak, the Srebrenica Memorial Center, Anibar, Urtina Hoxha, Flaka Kokolli, Koha Ditore, Produksioni 21, RTK and Oral History Kosovo.

Reporting House also presents works of contemporary art by internationally renowned and emerging artists, including Anri Sala, Adrian Paci, Gonçalo Mabunda, Lana Čmajčanin, Olafur Eliasson, Zhana Kadyrova, Driton Hajredini, Hussein al-Jerjawi, Besa Llugiqi, Agron Blakçori, Vullnet Jakupi and Vita Kasapolli. Together, these archives, testimonies and artworks preserve the stories that have shaped Kosovo’s collective memory and invite visitors to reflect on freedom, justice and human rights.

Reporting House brings together one of the richest collections documenting Kosovo’s recent history. The museum presents more than 150 television reports and around 500 photographs from the period 1981–1999, documenting key moments through the work of local and international journalists, photographers and media organisations.

Reporting House is an initiative of Jeta Xharra, one of Kosovo’s best-known journalists, who began her career at the age of 19 as a war reporter and translator for the BBC. The museum was curated by Gazmend Ejupi, a curator from Kosovo whose work and vision have been shaped by the country’s experience of resistance for freedom and its cultural development.

Our archive includes material from Frontline Television News, BBC News, Reuters, Das Erste, NHK, RTÉ, EO 2 Vandaag, Tele 5, Koha Ditore, RTK, RTV21, The New York Times, Associated Press and Nippon TV.

The museum was made possible through the contributions of journalists, photographers, researchers and collaborators, including Vaughan Smith, Donika Shahini, Ilaz Bylykbashi, Ridvan Slivova, Hazir Reka, Eliza Hoxha, David Loyn, Flaka Surroi, Murteza Kurti, Alan Chin, Jeremy Bowen, Nick Millard, Goran Tomašević, Besnik Mehmeti, Paul Lowe, Max Stahl, Jehona Lushaku, Gëzim and Gazmend Avdiu, Paul S. Refsdal, Selajdin Krasniqi, Veton Kasapolli, Andrew Testa, Marija Ristić, Fred Scott, Nora Visoka Weller, Visar Kryeziu, Sean Whelan, Julius Strauss, Sami Mustafa, Alban Bujari, Linda Gusia, Leman Kamberi, Eki Rrahmani, Ben Brown, Thomas Dworzak, the Srebrenica Memorial Center, Anibar, Urtina Hoxha, Flaka Kokolli, Koha Ditore, Produksioni 21, RTK and Oral History Kosovo.

Reporting House also presents works of contemporary art by internationally renowned and emerging artists, including Anri Sala, Adrian Paci, Gonçalo Mabunda, Lana Čmajčanin, Olafur Eliasson, Zhana Kadyrova, Driton Hajredini, Hussein al-Jerjawi, Besa Llugiqi, Agron Blakçori, Vullnet Jakupi and Vita Kasapolli. Together, these archives, testimonies and artworks preserve the stories that have shaped Kosovo’s collective memory and invite visitors to reflect on freedom, justice and human rights.

Between March and June 1999 hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians were violently deported by this railway route, packed into overcrowded trains departing from Prishtina toward North Macedonia. Serbian forces emptied neighbourhoods, stripped families of their documents and expelled them in one of the largest forced displacements in Europe since the Second World War.

Through the 1990s hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians had gradually left Kosovo before the world began paying attention. The 1999 exodus was, however, incomparably more traumatic: two thirds of the entire population were driven from their homes over 10 weeks. Much of today’s population were made into refugees.

“Exodus ’99” insists we do not forget this experience. We present 48 interviews with people who underwent it, recounted 27 years later. The stories divide into four themes: expulsion, time in refugee camps, time with host families, return. Some did not leave: they tell of hiding out throughout the military campaign, joining the guerrillas, or their train being turned back after leading politician Fehmi Agani was taken from it and summarily executed.

The testimonies screened within this railway carriage are those of survivors of mass expulsion who returned to Kosovo, reclaimed their homes and rebuilt their lives, defying a concerted campaign of ethnic cleansing.