In December of 2017 it was announced that The War Childhood Museum won one of the most prestigious awards in the museum industry – The Council of Europe Museum Award 2018 under the European Museum of the Year scheme!

The 2018 Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded to the War Childhood Museum, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

The museum was selected by the Culture Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) at a meeting in Budapest today.

According to the rapporteur on the Museum Prize, Adele Gambaro (Italy, FDG), the museum is “a truly inspiring example of a grassroots initiative led by a charismatic young person, Jasminko Halilovic, who was himself a child during the four-year war siege of Sarajevo. As part of his own “healing process”, in 2010 he launched a short questionnaire on the internet and collected over 1,000 replies, which were initially edited in a book and later presented in this museum. Through powerful personal stories and objects associated with each story, this museum advocates peace, reconciliation and the value of cultural diversity”…

http://www.assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=6891&lang=2&cat=37