Captain's Tower Museum
Medieval keep on the Una holding the Una-Sana Canton Museum's displays, from Japodes to 1945.
The Captain's Tower stands above the Una in the centre of Bihac, the last survivor of four towers thought to have been raised around 1205. Local tradition connects the fortifications with the flight of King Bela IV from the Mongols and the charter that made Bihac a free royal town. Later the keep served the Ottoman captains who governed the frontier district, and it was used as a prison well into the twentieth century. Beside it stands the Kameno turbe, a stone mausoleum built of local bihacite.
Since 1953 the tower has housed the collections of what is now the Museum of Una-Sana Canton, which also occupies the nearby Kloster building. Five permanent displays are arranged floor by floor and run from prehistory to the Austro-Hungarian period. The strongest is Spiritual and Material Culture of the Japodes, with carved stone urns and relief slabs of Japodian horsemen excavated at Golubic. The museum's holdings also include graphic work by Dzevad Hozo and paintings by Jovan Bijelic, both designated national monuments.
Highlights
- Only surviving tower of the medieval fortification of Bihac
- Japodian stone urns and relief slabs from the Golubic necropolis
- Five permanent displays arranged floor by floor
- The stone Kameno turbe mausoleum stands alongside
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