Museum of Sarajevo 1878-1918 (Sarajevo Assassination Museum)

The Museum of Sarajevo 1878-1918 (often called the Sarajevo Assassination Museum) stands at Zelenih beretki 1 on the corner beside the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It occupies the building that once held Schiller's delicatessen, outside which Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on 28 June 1914. The museum focuses on the Austro-Hungarian period from the occupation of Bosnia in 1878 until the end of the First World War in 1918, and gives context to the assassination as well as to everyday life in the city. Visitors see photographs, uniforms, documents, maps, weapons and personal items arranged in a compact two-room display, with panels in English, and a short film in some periods. The collection shows how Sarajevo modernised under Austro-Hungarian administration, with electric trams, new public buildings, the Vijećnica and new streets, and how political tensions grew into the events of 1914. A visit takes about 45 minutes. The best view for photographs is of the corner window and the Latin Bridge from the opposite embankment. Weekday mornings are quiet, and midday is busy as tour groups arrive from the Latin Bridge. The museum is small, so groups can feel crowded. The entry fee is around 5 KM. The museum is in the immediate centre, a few minutes' walk from Baščaršija, the Vijećnica and the Miljacka riverside, and is reached by tram line 3 to the Muzej stop. Hours vary by season and may be shorter in winter, so visitors should check opening times locally.