MUSEUMS

REGIONAL MUSEUM
Public Institution Regional Museum
St. Mehmed-pasha Kukavica 1
(030) 518 – 140; 541 – 590; 541 – 591;
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Regional Museum in Travnik is founded in 1950. Rich heritage is taken from Gymnasium in Travnik which is enlarged during years of Museum’s work with new findings and collected material, and that made conditions for Regional Museum to become one of the most important institution of this kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Beside mentioned Gymnasium collection, during the time, other collections formed: Fototeka with 4000 photos, collection of documents of new age history, artistic paintings fond, in which, the most important by its value and significance - collection of paintings, straw paintings and drawings of Muhamed Kulenovic, Krakovo’s student and pre-war revolutionary which was creating in Travnik in last years. Ethno collection is rich with various material. Especially accented are examples of old town’s wear from XIX century, the national wear from Travnik area, and numerous and various subjects of material culture of people from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Museum posses rich archeological collection with lapidaries in which is collected material from prehistory to Turkish period. Numismatic fond contains 10 000 money examples which are different origin and different historic periods. Valuable library contains 5 500 works, and possesses precious book samples from XVII,XVIII and XIX century, and also number of professional magazines, works and modern titles. In 1976. in the Museum building, the permanent setting of Natural collection was opened, which belongs to one of the most important in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Items from paleontology, mineralogy, petrography, and zoology are exposed in five halls. In forming of this collection, special credit goes to professor Erich Brandis, natural scientist, whose dedication was exploring of flora in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He discovered many unknown species, so they carry his name. Brandis collected, determined and system arranged various samples of plants into herbarium which is now kept in State’s museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He collected zoological collection thanks to acquaintance to many people settled around the world. For example, that’s how samples of tiger and lion from Vienna’s museum in Schoenbrun got to the Gymnasium. In 1887. students congratulate birthday to his majesty emperor Franjo Josif, and for reverse, he offered them a present. Decision was made to lion and tiger, which fascinated children’s imagination, and soon prepared examples of these animals were brought to Gymnasium. In zoological collection, precious items are exposed. They come from different continents, and various oceans and sees, and many of them are extremely rare, considering that many animal spices are so endangered that it is almost impossible to get them.

MEMORIAL MUSEUM “BIRTH HOUSE OF IVO ANDRIC”
Opening hours: Every day except Wednesday from 11 to 18 h
Ticket price: 1KM (0,5 €)

Close to the place where used to be old house of Pero Zec and where Ivo Andric was born, on 30. august 1974. a new house in Bosnian stile was built and after Andric died, it was proclaimed as Memorial museum. Biography of Noble Laureate Ivo Andric( born on 9th October 1892. in Travnik, died on 13th march 1975. in Beograd) is well known to all admirers of literature, beside false data about date of birth and birth place which unfortunately still can be found even in encyclopedia and school book. The faith of old Bosnian house number 13 in Zenjak street, where Andric was born 112 year ago, is not known very well. Brothers Ivan and Tadija Antunovic sold this house to Stjepan Majkic-Jurisic. Fires demaged it. In 1925. salesman Pero Zec bought the house, and in 1970. after long haggling, the Municipality bought the house from him. After moving out, the house was ruined and, new house in Bosnian stile was built near by, in accordance of project of the architect called Nedeljko Rosic from Sarajeva, and it was finished on 30th August 1974. It was three decades ago and till then this house was treated as “Birth house of Ivo Andric”! After Andric died the house got the formal name: “Memorial museum of Ivo Andric”, and although it was pretty nonfunctional– it had stairs like ladders, that many guests couldn’t use to climb up, and the ground floor had earth floor with fireplace and showcases made of pleksiglas(material) which had some of Works that Andric wrote. At the beginning of the nineties in last century, Club “Divan” is opened in adapted ground floor of the house, and literature and other events took place there. A few years ago, ground floor and yard are rented to the needs of luxury restaurant, of which tenancy this house is preserved. The first floor contains museum collection of works that Andric wrote in foreign languages, photos from the award of the Nobel prize taken by Milos Đuric, the “Oslobođenje” photographer, and some others exhibits that should remind that near that place, on 9th (not 10th) October 1892. in humble house of school’s attendant called Tadija Antunovic, Ivan was born, the son of Antun and Katarina-Kata born Pejic from Grahovik near Travnik. These data precisely wrote pastor Juraj Pušek under number 70 in christened main register in the church of St. John the Baptist (Ivan Krstitelj) in Travnik.