The Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina contains two things worth seeing: the permanent exhibition on the Siege of Sarajevo, and the building itself — a piece of 1960s Yugoslav modernist architecture that has been only partially repaired since wartime damage and retains a defiantly unrestored rawness.
The siege exhibition documents the 1992–1995 siege through photographs, personal objects, and documentary material. It is less polished than the War Childhood Museum but more comprehensive, covering the military and political context as well as the human experience. The building's deteriorated state is part of the atmosphere rather than a failure of maintenance — the curators have made a considered decision to present the museum as a physical document of what the siege did to the city's infrastructure.