Museums in Baščaršija — Svrzo's House, Museum of Sarajevo, Despić House.
Baščaršija has a concentrated cluster of museums — Svrzo's House (Ottoman life), Museum of Sarajevo, Despić House (a Sarajevo bourgeois family), the Alija Izetbegović Museum.
The Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide 1992–1995 holds a rich collection of items and makes use of a multidisciplinary approach in helping visitors research and become more familiar with events that took place during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995.
The Sarajevska Pivara Museum is located in the area around the Sarajevo Brewery, which was founded in 1864 by the Viennese industrialist, Heinrich Levi, as the first industrial enterprise in BiH and the first brewery in what was still the Ottoman Empire.
Svrzo's House represents one of the most well-preserved examples of domestic architecture from the Ottoman Period in BiH during the 18th century, a time when wealthier homes were divided into a public section (selamluk) and a family section (haremluk).
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