Gallery 11/07/95

Gallery 11/07/95 is a memorial museum at Trg Fra Grge Martića 2 in the old town of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its name refers to 11 July 1995, the day Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladić entered the United Nations safe area of Srebrenica. Over the following days more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed, the worst mass atrocity in Europe since the Second World War. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice have both ruled that the killings amounted to genocide. The gallery, opened in 2016, presents the events through photographs, video, documents and personal testimony, with a focus on survivors, victims and the work of identifying remains in mass graves. The exhibition is largely multimedia and thematic, taking visitors from the fall of the enclave through to the exhumations, burials at the Potočari memorial and the ongoing search for missing persons. Interviews with survivors and relatives give the presentation a personal dimension. The building sits on a small square near the Cathedral and Baščaršija, which makes it easy to combine with other old-town sites. The mood is sombre, and some material is graphic, so visitors should be prepared. Labels and audio are provided in English alongside Bosnian. Admission is about 12 KM, and reported opening hours are 09:00 to 22:00 daily, although it is wise to confirm locally or by phone on +387 33 953 170. A visit generally takes 45 minutes to an hour. Many visitors pair it with a day trip to the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial, which lies roughly two hours from Sarajevo by road.