Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
• Go up the wide stairs to the right of the cemetery (near the mosque). At #4 (on the right,
just before and across from the bombed-out tower), you'll find the...
This humble little museum is made worthwhile by a deeply moving
film
that traces the
history of the town through its Old Bridge: fun circa-1957 footage of the diving contests;
harrowing scenes of the bridge being pummeled, and finally toppled, by artillery; and a
stirring sequence showing the bridge's reconstruction and grand reopening on that day in
2004—with high-fives, Beethoven's
Ode to Joy
, fireworks, and more divers. (This includes
much of the same footage as the similar film at the Gallery on the Bridge, described earlier,
but doesn't focus solely on the wartime damage.)
The museum itself displays fragments of this region's rich history, including historic
photosandseveralitemsfromitsOttomanperiod.TherearesparseEnglishdescriptions,but
without a tour guide the exhibits are a bit difficult to appreciate. Topics include the Turk-
ish period, Herzegovina under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, village life, and (in the base-
ment)localarchaeology.Onesmallroomcommemoratesthehouse'sformerowner,Dzemal
Bijedi
ć
, who was Tito's second-in-command during the Yugoslav period until he was killed
