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The restoration of interior and wall painting in the Department of Archaeology, Subdivision of Prehistory of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina has begun

11/29/2018



Within the project „Preventive conservation of the collections of National Museum of B&H in Sarajevo” there are ongoing works in the interior of the Subdivision for Prehistory of the National Museum of B&H, which has been unavailable to the public since 1992.

The particular value of the interior decoration in this pavilion is wall painting[1], which is in extremely poor condition, and the works on its restoration are urgent. The value of the works is BAM 197,437.50. The contractor is a company “Koto“ d.o.o. Belgrade/Banja Luka, while the supervision of the works was delegated to the Institute for the Protection of Monument within the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Following the completion of the restoration and after the installation of the appropriate tools for preventive conservation of the collections, Subdivision for Prehistory would be suitable for reopening for the public. All the works carried out would create conditions for setting up the exhibition, which will be presented again in renovated exhibition halls after a number of years. 

The works are being carried out within the project “Preventive conservation of the collections of the National Museum of B&H in Sarajevo”, which was funded by a Special fund of American ambassadors for preservation of cultural heritage with the US Embassy in B&H. The project, in its totality of $ 625,000.00 (BAM 1,070,000.00), is implemented by the Commission to Preserve National Monuments. More info on: https://bit.ly/2tNiEAM.


[1] Wall paintings are created in the manner of secession and it presents a rare example of preserved Art Nouveau painting in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Painted surfaces are found on ceilings in a large hall, on the ground floor and the first floor, and then on the walls and the entrance hall ceiling shaped like cupola, as well as on barrel vaults of halls that connect the lobby and rooms. The motifs of wall paintings are floral, and on ceilings they are combined with faces of idealized nymphs and muses.