Museums of Sarajevo: The Historical Museum
The Historical Museum of Bosnia
and Herzegovina was founded soon after the end of the Second World War, on
November 13, 1945, as a museum of national liberation. It was first located in
Vijećnica and then moved to a specially designed facility in Marijin Dvor in
1963.
Over the years, this museum has
had different names and the scope of its collection has been modified. From
1949 to 1967 it was called the Museum of the People’s Revolution of BiH, then
the Museum of the BiH Revolution (1967-1993), until it finally acquired its
current name in 1993.
The museum covers the entire
history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from the first mention of "Bosna” in
historical sources (in the document, De Administrando Imperio, issued by
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus) up until the present day.
The museum’s collection is
divided into six main areas: archival material, photographs, three-dimensional
objects, artwork, a research library and documentation center.
The collection comprises some 400,000 items, many of which are very rare.
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