Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide — Attraction in City of Sarajevo

Real stories. The two museums in Sarajevo about the war and genocide—this one and the Siege of Sarajevo museum—should be visited to read the real stories from the survivors about what they experienced during these events.

They were the most blood freezing things i have ever read. In no kind of fiction have i encountered such disgusting imagery.

I tried to read all the eye-witness accounts in both of these museums. When i was done with the Siege of Sarajevo Museum the day before, i had thought it was hard to read the stories there. There were stories of children dying in their parents arms, or in front of their brothers. Of orphaned and destroyed families. But the stories in the Museum Of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide were something else. They spoke of the harsher war that happened outside of Sarajevo, in the villages: they spoke of the rape, the murder, the humiliation. Of the concentration camps, of neighbors murdering and raping the other. Of huge mass graves where each would dig their own space before being shot and thrown in... Of blood on the snow.

I couldn't get through the whole museum while maintaining my health. After an hour and a half and about 20 stories in, i was feeling dizzy, i had heart palpitations, and my face was contorted into a horrible frown that probably surprised every other visitor... But they were in no better state.

If you visit this museum, don't even read the historical or reconstructed exhibits. Just read the eye-witness stories. They taught me what the horrors of war are. Here, i learned.

The museum is doing holy work by maintaining the record of these horrors. As unbelievable they are, they did happen, exactly on the soil you'll be stepping on in Bosnia, and not more than 30 years ago.

It is important to remember and know as us humans, and this museum brings nothing but the truth.

Thank you to the curators, to the ones who donated their stories, and everyone who work here.

May your dead find peace in the grave, and your children happiness in their...

I felt like it was something of a moral responsibility to visit this museum, first of all because I "owe" it to the victims, second of all because I was alive while this war and the Srebrenica genocide happened, but I don't remember anything about it (I was a small kid, so I'm not supposed to, but it still feels weird). The exhibition is mostly based on personal stories and objects, which definitely brings history closer to the visitors. However, I found that there was way too much information, and simply too many texts to read / videos to watch. It also got repetitive after a while (which is understandable since a lot of people remembered the same events). I spent two hours inside, and I didn't even manage to read half of the texts / watch half of the videos. (And I'm a very fast reader.) The exhibition is also crowded in the sense that in each room, there are a LOT of objects to look at, and each of the objects carries a story... One of the most moving stories (for me) was about a wounded Bosniak soldier who got transferred to Germany for surgery, and tried to learn German at the hospital, so he wrote down the words he heard most often in a notebook, but he had no idea how to spell them correctly... The only picture I took in the museum is of...

Entering the museum I was disappointed by the price: 7,5 euros (in Bosnia) seemed too much to visit just a few rooms since I had already gone to several similar museums dedicated to the war and crimes in Bosnia during my stay in Sarajevo. I must say that unlike some of the others in the end I was actually happy to visit this one. The guy at the desk was very agreeable and helpful and willingly answered to all my questions enlightening me on this war that most of us europeans at the time looked at without the right attitude (and even some indifference I must ashamedly admit. since they were still seen as eastern block countries). Seeing and reading all the stories in the museum made me feel extremely guilty. I was young and naive at the time. The museum has lots of evidence and objects but above all there's lots of stories written directly by the survivors /heroes/protagonists that really are heartbreaking. Unfortunately I had to visit quickly and cut my tour short because I had to rush to the airport but there would have been many more things to read and watch even though it's just about 7 or 8 rooms not more but the amount of stories narrated is huge. I stayed for an hour but it should take at least another hour to...