War Childhood Museum

Simply profound! Took my 7 year old and they have some interactive exhibits in entrance, greatly helpful staff that helped us in English, and the exhibits were powerful. There is a nook for coloring and reading books so we were able to sit there after the museum and read and color! Very much worth a trip!

A heartbreaking and fulfilling museum. When you first enter, you're shown into a hall that asks you questions about your own childhood. Once you reflect on that, you're brought into an exhibit containing the objects cherished by children at war, and seeing the difference in your own peaceful childhood to that of these children was heartbreaking. But it's also beautiful to see how children maintained hope during war. The exhibit changed every year but when I went they also had the stories of Palestinian and Ukrainian children. It's a beautifully poignant museum and my favorite in Sarajevo. If you can only go to one of the many museums in the city, I highly recommend this one. The museum was based on a book written by its founder that has all these stories, so I recommend buying it as a souvenir.

The collection is small (they only have 50 items on display at any given time) but incredibly moving. Each exhibit carries an immense weight of suffering, or of hope. Must visit for anyone interested in a non academic POV of the war.

A different experience to feel the war from the point of view of a children. If you read all the stories you can spend more than one hour. Good experience to go with people that you don't really know, because at the first part of the museum you can express and vote different topics about your childhood.

What they've done with this museum is amazing, a revolutionary point of view on sharing histories of war and childhood. I fully recommend.

Went in thinking it would be like any other war museum. Left with tears in my eyes and an overwhelming sense of gratitude towards having a safe and happy childhood. Major shoutout to the staff who took their time to explain the exhibition and also very well planned exhibition generally. Love the initial corridor where it the curators encourage you to relive your own childhood before they contrast it with that of the children from wartime Bosnia, Palestine and Ukraine.

I have never been really interested in museums, but I couldn't hold back my tears when I visited the "War Childhood Museum" in Sarajevo. I couldn't imagine how hard it was for the children to survive during the war. Then, I realized how grateful I was for not having a war in my country

Simple and moving. 160+ artifacts of people’s childhood as they moved through war with accompanying stories. Leave you with a deep appreciation of your own childhood and a recognition of the universality of humanity and that we were all children once.