Situated on a former military base of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the building hosting the National Gallery of Kosovo has had several tenants. Upon the renovation of the facade with locally sourced stone bricks in 1982-83 by the renowned Kosovo-born interior designer and architect Agush Beqiri, the building was turned into the Museum of Revolution of the Peoples of Kosovo and Metohija. This was one of the first attempts to repurpose it as an exhibition space. Under the Milosević regime in 1995, Pristina Gallery of Arts located in Boro and Ramiz was moved here. Founded in 1979, the Gallery of Arts has collected over nine-hundred works of art by visual artists who were educated in Yugoslav centers and were part of modernist movements. With Kosovo’s independence in 2008, the Pristina Art Gallery became the National Gallery of Kosovo.