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Museums & Galleries in SarajevoBA
Bosnia's capital of coffee, cevapi, and the film festival born during the siege that became the Balkans' premier cinema event.
Why here
Sarajevo processes the longest siege of a capital in modern history through some of Europe's most awarded memorial institutions. The War Childhood Museum, built from crowd-sourced objects and testimonies of the children of 1992-95, won the Council of Europe's 2018 Museum Prize against continental heavyweights; Gallery 11/07/95, founded by photographer Tarik Samarah, holds the permanent Srebrenica exhibition in images, maps, and film. The Tunnel of Hope by the airport and the Historical Museum complete a circuit no other city can offer: recent-war memory museology done this intimately exists nowhere else. Pace the day; it earns the heaviness.
Best months
Year-round; tickets run five to ten euros each with online booking at the War Childhood Museum. Everything is central and walkable except the Tunnel, thirty minutes out by the airport. Two institutions per day is the humane pace.
Getting there & around
The central institutions cluster within a walk of Bascarsija. Pair the heavy morning with the food walk's warmth in the afternoon.
Skill levels: beginner
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Gallery 11/07/95
OrganizerThe first memorial gallery in Bosnia, holding photographer Tarik Samarah's permanent Srebrenica exhibition.
War Childhood Museum
OrganizerEuropean Museum of the Year Prize winner 2018, built from crowd-sourced objects and testimonies of the children of the siege.