Galerija Srebrenica 11/07/95: free audio guide
The story of Galerija Srebrenica 11/07/95 in Sarajevo, as the Votura app tells it on location. Read it here, or hear it on the spot with turn-by-turn walking directions.
Before you go
- Address
- Trg Fra Grge Martića 2, 71000 Sarajevo
- Opening hours
- Mon–Sun: 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
The story
Galerija Srebrenica 11/07/95 is a powerful memorial gallery in Sarajevo that turns an art space into a place of remembrance, testimony, and public history. Its title points directly to 11 July 1995, the date when the Srebrenica genocide unfolded during the Bosnian War, and that date is one of the most important in recent European history. In a city that was itself besieged from 1992 to 1996, the gallery belongs to Sarajevo’s broader culture of memory, where museums, exhibitions, and commemorative spaces preserve evidence and stories that cannot be left to forgetfulness. The gallery’s very name makes its mission explicit: it links Sarajevo to the fate of Srebrenica and keeps the tragedy present in the everyday center of the capital.
The gallery stands on Trg Fra Grge Martića, a central Sarajevo address named for Fra Grgo Martić, the Franciscan friar, writer, and cultural figure born in 1822 and remembered as one of the city’s key 19th-century intellectual voices. That location matters, because the gallery sits in a part of Sarajevo where history, religion, and civic life overlap in a compact urban landscape shaped by Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav, and postwar layers. Instead of functioning as a decorative art venue, it works as a documentary space, using visual material to confront the genocide of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys murdered after the fall of the UN-declared safe area of Srebrenica. For visitors, that means the gallery is less about leisure and more about direct engagement with a crime that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice have both recognized in judicial history.
What makes the place especially striking is its focus on evidence, names, and faces rather than abstraction. Srebrenica itself lies in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, while the gallery in Sarajevo acts as a concentrated urban point where the memory of that distant town becomes immediate and unavoidable. The date 11 July 1995 is repeated with purpose, because remembrance here is anchored to a specific day, not to a vague era. The gallery’s cultural role also fits Sarajevo’s identity as a city of museums and memorials, from the Bosnian Historical Museum to the Tunnel of Hope, where the siege years are preserved with concrete artifacts and documented experiences. In that context, Galerija Srebrenica 11/07/95 serves as a focused, emotionally charged complement to the city’s wider historical landscape.
A visit here is meaningful precisely because the gallery does not separate art from witness. Its subject is one of the gravest events of the Bosnian War, a conflict that lasted from 1992 to 1995 and left Sarajevo scarred by shelling, snipers, displacement, and siege. By placing the memory of Srebrenica in the middle of the capital, the gallery makes a strong statement about public responsibility: remembrance belongs in everyday civic space, not only in remote cemeteries or formal state ceremonies. Tourists who stop here encounter not just an exhibition, but a lesson in how Sarajevo continues to process the war through culture, documentation, and moral clarity.
For anyone exploring Sarajevo with an interest in history, the gallery offers a rare kind of stop: intimate in scale, enormous in significance, and tied to one exact date that changed Bosnia and Herzegovina forever. The space carries the weight of 1995, the legacy of the Bosnian War, and the persistent effort to name the dead and preserve the truth. In a city where memory is built into streets, bridges, and institutions, Galerija Srebrenica 11/07/95 stands out as a place where art and witness meet with unusual force.
Written for the Votura audio tour and read aloud in the app. Opening hours change, so check with the venue before you go.
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Hear it on the spot
Votura plays this guide when you reach Galerija Srebrenica 11/07/95, then walks you to the next stop. Works offline.