Sarajevo Marijin Dvor

Marijin Dvor is where the Habsburg city gave way to the Yugoslav one. The name means "Mary's Court", after a Habsburg-era estate. Juraj Neidhardt's 1960 master plan laid the civic axis here: the National Museum (Karel Pařík, 1913) on one side of Zmaja od Bosne, the History Museum (Magaš, Šmidihen, Horvat, 1958) on the other. The Avaz Twist Tower, completed in 2008, is the tallest building in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the neighbourhood's vertical landmark. The tram runs through the middle. From Marijin Dvor westward the city opens into the wider valley: Skenderija, Koševo, Ciglane. The National Museum holds the Sarajevo Haggadah. The History Museum's permanent exhibition on the siege is worth an hour at minimum. Both are within three minutes' walk of the Marijin Dvor tram stop.

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Sarajevo Avaz Twist Tower

The Avaz Twist Tower is Sarajevo's tallest building (142 metres, completed 2008). A small public observation deck on the 35th floor costs around 5 BAM and gives you the full valley. Skip the café at the top. Take the view.

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Sarajevo History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Sarajevo History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Historijski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine sits in a Boris Magaš-designed concrete and glass pavilion from 1963, originally built as the Museum of the Revolution. The permanent exhibition *Besieged Sarajevo* covers the 1992–1995 siege with rigour and restraint, a Holiday Inn room reconstruction, hand-cranked siege radios, war journalism artefacts. Less polished than the War Childhood Museum and more documentary than Galerija 11/07/95. An essential second-day stop.

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Sarajevo National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Sarajevo National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Zemaljski muzej is Bosnia and Herzegovina's national museum, opened in 1888 by the Austro-Hungarian administration of Benjamin von Kállay. Its four pavilions hold the archaeology, ethnology, and natural-history collections of the country, plus a botanical garden of indigenous plants, plus, in a dedicated climate-controlled vault, the Sarajevo Haggadah. A morning here is the most concentrated way to read Bosnia.

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