Public announcement

The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina announces the decision to donate the income from the sale of the publication “Sarajevo Haggadah – Art and History”, as well as the income from tickets to see the Sarajevo Haggadah, for helping Palestine.

In this way, the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina provides support to the people of Palestine who suffer systematic, calculated and cold-blooded terror, directly by the state of Israel, and indirectly by all those who support and/or justify it in its shameless actions. At a time when we cannot justify ourselves with a lack of information, every averting our eyes, every feigned neutrality in the face of everyday examples of killing, starvation and forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians, primarily women and children, is an expression of acceptance and complicity in the genocide that we are all witnessing in real time.

As an institution that deals with the protection of cultural-historical and natural heritage, we are obliged to warn that in the shadow of this tragedy, the targeted erasure of the cultural and religious identity, primarily of the Muslims and Christians of Palestine, is taking place, through the demolition, taking over or making it impossible to use religious buildings and historical locations, as well as land and cultivated areas, which should be common, universal and protected heritage of civilization.

On behalf of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dr.sci. Mirsad Sijarić