MUSÉE RÉGIONAL DE JAJCE

This small museum (Zavičajni Muzej), also known as the Ethnographic Museum (Etno Muzej), is housed in the former finance house of the Austro-Hungarian administration built in 1882. The Jajce tourist agency is located here. On the first floor, there is a collection of traditional local objects and costumes from the 19th century, mainly from the Bosnian community. On the first floor there is a collection of minerals from the mines in the area with some beautiful specimens of surprising colors and shapes. At the entrance, the tourist agency offers souvenirs and embroideries made on the looms that are exhibited next door in the adjacent room. The building is framed by two buildings from the same period and in the same Baroque style: on the right, the former elementary school (1880) with bright orange walls, and on the left, the Sarač House (Saračeva Kuća). Dating from 1899 and awaiting restoration, this former home of the wealthy Sarač family incorporates some neo-Moorish decorative elements. It was here that the large Yugoslav news agency Tanjug ("Telegraphic Agency of New Yugoslavia"), now a small private Serbian news agency based in Belgrade, was established in 1943. The building then housed the studio of the Croatian sculptor Antun Augustinčić (1900-1979), who was responsible for the Monument to the Krajina War Dead in Banja Luka, and the Peace Monument in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York.