National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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| Established | 1888 (Conceived in 1850) |
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| Location | Ulica Zmaja od Bosne 3 |
| Website | www.zemaljskimuzej.ba |
The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: Zemaljski Muzej Bosne i Hercegovine / Земаљски музеј Босне и Херцеговине) is located in central Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It was established in 1888, having originally been conceived around 1850. In 1913, the museum was enlarged 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.
On 4 October 2012, after 124 years of operation the institution closed its doors due to ongoing disputes about its funding. It did not get any funding in 2011, and in January 2012, the local government allocated funding which would be sufficient to pay existing utility bills but not to prevent the closure in the future.
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