Museums of Sarajevo: Sevdah Art House
Sevdah Art House is a museum
dedicated to sevdalinka, traditional urban love songs, and the famous singers
who have interpreted them.
The museum is located in
Baščaršija in Velike Daire, a renovated storehouse (magaza) that was built
during the Ottoman period and used by Sarajevo merchants to store their goods.
The old magaza is now home to the
museum collection, which displays items that once belonged to the greatest
sevdah masters: Himzo Polovina, Zaim Imamović, Ismet Alajbegović-Šerbo, Safet
Isović, Zehra Deović, Nada Mamula, Zora Dubljević....
The museum also includes
biographies of these sevdah performers, as well as the instruments they played,
the major awards they received, old concert posters, archived recordings, some
of the outfits they wore and so on.
The Art House has a central area,
the enclosed Velike Daire courtyard, with its Sevdah Cafe, where visitors can
rest and enjoy some coffee and the most beautiful sevdalinka songs. The museum
also has a souvenir shop with CDs, books and many other items related to
sevdalinka available for purchase.
Source: http://sarajevo.travel/en