The Sarajevo Haggadah
Saved by a Muslim librarian.
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Bosnia's oldest and most important museum, founded in 1888 and housed since 1913 in four elegant European Renaissance-style buildings around an inner botanical garden, designed by the Czech architect Karel Pařík. It has archaeology, natural history and ethnography departments that tell the country's story from prehistory onwards. Its greatest treasure is the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated fourteenth-century Jewish manuscript from Spain, hidden from the Nazis in the Second World War by a Muslim librarian and protected again in the 1990s war, shown at set times. The archaeology department holds medieval stećak tombstones, carved stone gravemarkers on UNESCO's list, and the ethnography department displays traditional Bosnian houses with their furnishings. A small entry fee is charged; it usually opens from ten until six and closes on Mondays, so check before going. The museum was closed from 2012 to 2015 for lack of funds and reopened with public support. It lies west of the centre near the parliament building, a quarter of an hour by tram from Baščaršija.
Saved by a Muslim librarian.
Medieval carved stones.
Between the four buildings.
Zmaja od Bosne Street, Marijin Dvor, Sarajevo
An illuminated fourteenth-century Jewish manuscript from Spain, saved from the Nazis by a Muslim librarian, shown at set times.
