Sarajevo Tunnel Museum
After the war, The Sarajevo Tunnel Museum was built on a historic private house whose cellar served as the entrance to Sarajevo Tunnel. Now visitors can still walk down a small part of the tunnel of about 20 meter. The "house" museum is exhibiting archival materials including an 18-mins movie, war photographs, military equipment, flags and military uniforms, flotsam and jetsam. Local planning authorities are seeking funding for a "full reconstruction of the tunnel" and the "construction of museum buildings at its entrance and exit points".
About the purpose of the museum, Vladimir Zubic, deputy of the City Council of Sarajevo, notes that the museum is "a reminder to everyone, so that a thing like this tunnel, that provided the people of this city with the minimum subsistence, will never have to be used again. It will be a place where younger people will be able to study a part of our recent past and it will be proof that this part of our history will never be forgotten".
The house and the land around Sarajevo Tunnel's entrance is owned by Bajro Kolar, a local man who is now running this private museum. In a documentary about Sarajevo War Tunnel, he talked about the reason to turn this house into war facility. He said, "whatever we have, we gave for the defense and liberation of Sarajevo." Having existed for 15 years without any governmental financial support, this museum is becoming the most visited site of the Bosnian capital, experiencing hundreds of daily visitors.Many guided tours operated in Sarajevo now include the Tunnel Museum as one of the most worth visiting war sites in the city.
The museum is open to visitors every working day from 9 am to 4 pm. The address of the museum: Tuneli 1; Donji Kotorac 34; Ilidža. Telephone: +387 61 213 760. The museum admission fee is 5 KM.
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