National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo

National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo

The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina is located in central Sarajevo.

It was established in 1888, having originally been conceived around 1850. In 1913, the museum building was expanded by the Czech architect Karel Pařík who designed a structure of four symmetric pavilions with a facade in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The four pavilions contain the departments of archaeology, ethnology, natural history, and a library. After being closed for several years due to heavy damage in the recent war, the museum has re-opened and is in the process of mounting new and pre-existing exhibits.

The museum is a cultural and scientific institution covering a wide range of areas including archaeology, art history, ethnology, geography, history and natural history. The Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript and the oldest Sephardic Jewish document in the world issued in Barcelona around 1350, containing the traditional Jewish Haggadah, is held at the museum.

It has a library with 162,000 volumes.

Having remained open for its entire history including during the Bosnian War in the early 1990s, the Museum was closed between 2012-15 due to disagreements about funding.
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Sight Name: National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sight Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (See walking tours in Sarajevo)
Sight Type: Museum/Gallery

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