National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo.
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The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo.

The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Zemaljski Muzej Bosne i Hercegovine), is located in central Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was established in 1888, having originally been conceived around 1850.

The museum is a cultural and scientific institution covering a wide range of areas including archaeology, art history, ethnology, geography, history and natural history. The Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript of around 1350 containing the traditional Jewish Haggadah, is held at the museum.

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