History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The "Museum of the Revolution" (later renamed the "History Museum of BiH" in 1993) in Sarajevo was unveiled in 1963 and designed as a showpiece architectural testament to Yugoslav creativity and design. This impressive building, with its floating box-like mass, was the work of an architect team made up of Boris Magaš, Edo Šmidihen and Radovan Horvat. The interior of this museum was then subsequently populated with a vast array of art installations crafted by Yugoslav artists that could match the scope of this dazzling modernist complex. Among the most impressive of these artworks is a multi-level memorial mosaic mural titled "Bosna" by famous Serbian artist Mladen Srbinović. After completing a massive mosaic at the SIV in Belgrade just a few years earlier in 1959, Srbinović went on to create this even more fantastic mosaic work at Sarajevo's new Museum of the Revolution in 1966. Located along the walls of the museum's main stairwell, the mosaic spans several levels and operates as a memorial to the history of Bosnia & Herzegovina. The work is highly abstract, composed primarily of dozens of stylized circular faces (all diverse and unique). Among them are flowers to denote times of peace and skulls to mark eras of war and death. Around the faces are also various weapons, as well as laborer's tools, both meant to symbolize the rising up of the working class. Meanwhile, sources describe the sharp red line that runs through the work as a representation of the "force that helps bring eternal renewal and birth from nothingness... symbolizes recovery, blossoming, desire, and ability."

It was very cold. There is no heat. They have few exhibition from last war in Bosnia and WW2 in former Yugoslavia, also about famous women warriors from WW2 in former Yugoslavia

Everything but decent. In the museum there was colder than outside in winter time. No heating, 30 years old exhibition. By the way it was worth to see it. It is an eternal memory forever for sure.

This museum has a very emotional exhibition on the Bosnian war. It shows some of the artifacts from the war time and there are lot of pictures to show what was happening in Sarajevo during the siege. There are some very deep and devastating stories throughout the exhibit and some of the images are pretty grim, so get ready for some war realness when you go. The museum is a great introduction to the conflict and provides context if you are interested into digging more into the topic. We went in the winter and the museum was cold since the heaters were not running.

Very nice. But not so big. It is all about war. Good for people that like history