Sarajevo is an interesting city for travelers who look for museums, art, and history. Only in the last 500 years, the city was part of the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the former Yugoslavia. Such history made Sarajevo a hub of cultural and religious diversity while being the border amongst big empires. As shown in the map below, the listed museums on this post are located in the city center, except the Sarajevo Tunnel, which is next to the airport.
Sarajevo Tunnel
Nowadays a military museum, the Sarajevo Tunnel used to serve as an underground to escape the Serbian siege in the city during the 1992-1995 War. Tours are usually taken for about four hours describing war episodes around the tunnel.
National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina was founded in 1878. Closes on Mondays. At this museum, there are historical treasures such as old Haggadahs and prehistoric objects, as well as the following permanent exhibitions:
- Fossils of Sarajevo and vicinity
- Birds of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Rocks and ores
- Forests of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Invertebrates
Sarajevo Museum 1878-1918
This museum houses a permanent exhibition from 1878 to 1918, the Austro-Hungarian period. It’s next to Latin Bridge, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated. The exhibited themes are about the Austro-Hungarian legacies on culture, politics, architecture, industry, lifestyle, modernization, and World War I.
War Childhood Museum
A museum whose idea started from a book (War Childhood: Sarajevo 1992-1995) and in 2015 opened up to share memories, stories, and reconciliation after traumatic experiences from the war. Opens from Monday to Sunday, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm.
Galerija 11/07/95
Galerija 11/07/95 gathers an exhibition of images, audio, and videos of the Srebrenica tragedy, a genocide that killed over 8.000 persons in the city of Srebrenica in July of 1995, despite this city was protected by a peace agreement.
Sarajevo Brewery Museum
Together with Sarajevo Brewery (Sarajevska Pivara), founded in 1864, one of the oldest industrial plants in Bosnia. The museum opens from Monday to Saturday, from 10:00 h – 18:00 h. To visit the brewery, it’s necessary prior arrangements, a maximum of 15 persons per group. There’s also a package with a restaurant a few meters from the brewery, Pivnica HS.
Brusa Bezistan
Brusa Bezistan is a house that was built in 1551 by the silk trader Rustem Pasha, where he used to sell silk. Nowadays it’s a museum with a permanent exhibition of prehistory, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian periods.
Svrzo’s House
Svrzo’s House is an old house built in the 1700s that represents how an urban Muslim family used to live in Sarajevo as part of the Ottoman Empire. Buy admission tickets here!
Despic House
Depic House used to belong to an Orthodox Christian family with this name. It presents the lifestyle of an Orthodox Christian family in the 17th century, which displays the major religion in the Balkans.
The Jewish Museum
The Jewish Museum is housed in the oldest synagogue of Bosnia, dating from 1581. The exhibition highlights the contributions of Jews in Bosnian society, to science and arts; and on the Holocaust during World War II. Learn more about the big history of Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a mini-bus tour with a professional guide.
If you want to see more during your trip to Bosnia, you may join a journey through Sarajevo’s history, meet its secrets and experience the mysticism of its streets.
Originally posted 2017-11-20 11:12:54.
