Museum of Literature and Performing Arts of BiH improves its tourist offer with City of Sarajevo support

With financial support from the City of Sarajevo, the Museum of Literature and Performing Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina has completed the project Improving the Tourist Offer of the Museum of Literature and Performing Arts of BiH, making the Museum more visible and accessible to local and international visitors.

Funded from the City of Sarajevo’s 2025 budget, the project provided new furniture for the museum garden and a new banner that makes the Museum easier to spot, while the museum catalogue was reprinted and also published in English. An information board was also put up about the Despić House, the national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina in which the Museum is located. For technical reasons, the banner and the information board were installed in 2026.

For years, the Museum’s small team, led by director Šejla Šehabović, has been working with dedication to establish the Museum as one of the most important cultural institutions in Sarajevo and to make it an important part of Sarajevo’s tourist offer.

The Museum was founded in 1961 as the Museum of Literature, and in 1970 it extended its work to the performing arts. It is located in the heart of Sarajevo, in a family house built in the mid-19th century, and its collection is organised into 67 literary and 17 theatre collections.