{"id":5257,"date":"2026-02-18T14:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muzejsarajeva.ba\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2026-03-14T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:08:14","slug":"od-skromnih-pocetaka-do-znacajne-kulturne-institucije","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muzejsarajeva.ba\/en\/2026\/02\/18\/od-skromnih-pocetaka-do-znacajne-kulturne-institucije\/","title":{"rendered":"From humble beginnings to a significant cultural institution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From humble beginnings to a significant cultural institution \u2014 tomorrow we celebrate the birthday of the Museum of Sarajevo and its many years of service to culture.<\/p>\n

On this occasion, we share an excerpt from the monograph \u201c75 Years in the Service of Culture\u201d, from the authorial text of the Director of the Museum of Sarajevo, Indira Ku\u010duk Sorgu\u010d, which testifies to the beginnings and development of our institution:<\/p>\n

\"It began modestly, in the attic of Sarajevo\u2019s City Hall. In a small room with two writing desks, one of which was borrowed, two chairs and a wardrobe, sat the first director, Prof. Vojislav Bogi\u010devi\u0107, and his assistant, Ljubica Mladenovi\u0107, and next to it was a small room resembling a mutvak where museum objects were kept. Under the managerial auspices of the second director of the Museum of the City of Sarajevo, Professor of Literature Ahmet Grebo, the museum was institutionally consolidated, and museological structures were created and established on which the inner being of this institution, its heart \u2014 the museum fund \u2014 still rests today, from which a dynamic museological creative matrix is born and developed. In the period from 1951 to 1970, through dedicated work and high-quality strategic decisions, including the engagement of professional staff \u2014 curators, conservators, preparators, as well as administrative personnel \u2014 Ahmet Grebo established the Museum on solid personnel and infrastructural foundations. This was also the period when the Museum moved from the inadequate premises in the City Hall to the building of the Sharia Judges\u2019 School, which remains remembered by generations of Sarajevans, contemporaries of the Museum, as the place where the Museum of the City of Sarajevo was housed.\"<\/p>\n

Along with this post, we are sharing photographs from the Museum of Sarajevo\u2019s photo archive \u2014 from its first days of operation in the City Hall, as well as photographs of Director Ahmet Grebo with the Museum\u2019s employees.<\/p>\n

Thank you to everyone who has created, built, and preserved the Museum of Sarajevo and its values throughout the generations.<\/p>\n