Museum of the Second Session of AVNOJ
Hall in Jajce where the 1943 AVNOJ session met, now a museum of the Yugoslav anti-fascist movement.
The building was put up in 1934 for the Sokol gymnastic society of Jajce, to a design by the Belgrade architect Momir Korunović. On 29 and 30 November 1943 it housed the second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia, at which 142 delegates set out the framework for a federal post-war Yugoslav state. The hall was decorated for the occasion by the painter Đorđe Andrejević Kun, and the assembly setting has been preserved as the centrepiece of the display.
A memorial museum was established here in 1953 and formally opened in 1959, becoming a central Yugoslav institution. Its stores were looted during the 1992–95 war and many objects were dispersed. The building was declared a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2002, a public institution was founded in 2007, and the partly restored museum reopened on 29 November 2008. It now presents the anti-fascist movement in Yugoslavia, keeps a library of some 3,000 titles and receives about 20,000 visitors a year.
Highlights
- Built in 1934 as a Sokol society hall by architect Momir Korunović
- Assembly hall of the second AVNOJ session of November 1943
- Interior decoration designed by the painter Đorđe Andrejević Kun
- National monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2002
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