If we were to pick the brightest gems from the treasure trove of material and intangible heritage kept in the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, there is no way we could leave out the illuminated Jewish codex known around the world as the Sarajevo Haggadah. The haggadah (Hebrew for story, account) is a collection of religious rules and traditions arranged into the order of the Seder observed on Passover, the holiday celebrating the liberation of the Jews from slavery in Egypt.
Today in History: A Call for the Establishment of a Museum Society Published
21/09/2018
On 21st of September 1884, Dr. Julije Makanec, a doctor from Zagreb and a councillor in Sarajevo, published a call for the establishment of a museum society in the magazine Bosnische Post, no.