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War Childhood Museum

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Stari Grad

Why it matters: an independent, non-profit museum founded by Jasminko Halilovic, who was four when the siege began – it started in 2010 as an online call for memories, drew over 1,000 responses, and opened on Logavina in 2017. It won the Council of Europe Museum Prize in 2018, and it is not government-funded. The collection is everyday objects donated by people who were children in the war – a diary, a pair of ballet shoes, a toy – each shown with the owner’s own words. Give it 90 minutes; it is small but you will read every card. Free entry the last Thursday of the month, 5-7pm.

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Logavina 32 - non-profit museum - daily 11am-7pm, last entry 6:30pm

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